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jinjer 's review for:
The Virgin Cure
by Ami McKay
This book should have had a different title! Although the Virgin Cure is addressed in the book, it's not what the story is about. It's about a young girl growing up in the slums of NYC in 1871 who ends at a brothel and everything that happens to her in between. It's also about the female doctor in charge of taking care of the girls who live & work in the brothel. The doctor is modeled after the author's great, great grandmother.
I liked the fake(?) newspaper articles sprinkled throughout the book and the sidebar footnotes and detailed descriptions of ladies fashion from old issues of Harper's Bazar.
A lot of reviewers complained about how the author left a lot of loose ends in the story. Somehow I missed those and wasn't bothered by it, I guess. I enjoyed the book very much. It wasn't a great piece of literature, mind you, but it held my interest. I wish I lived in New York so I could run right out and see the Tenement Museum and the site of the Stuyvesant Pear Tree and a Dime Museum and other peculiarities.
I liked the fake(?) newspaper articles sprinkled throughout the book and the sidebar footnotes and detailed descriptions of ladies fashion from old issues of Harper's Bazar.
A lot of reviewers complained about how the author left a lot of loose ends in the story. Somehow I missed those and wasn't bothered by it, I guess. I enjoyed the book very much. It wasn't a great piece of literature, mind you, but it held my interest. I wish I lived in New York so I could run right out and see the Tenement Museum and the site of the Stuyvesant Pear Tree and a Dime Museum and other peculiarities.