The Virgin Cure: A Novel
&#8220;McKay captures the era&#8217;s atmosphere in such crisply rendered details. . . . Thought provoking and beautifully rendered.&#8221; (Booklist)&#8220;So well researched is this novel, so deep does it take readers into the dark and desperate life of Lower Manhattan that it is easy to believe it was written 150 years ago as a treatise decrying the fate that awaited so many impoverished young girls.&#8221; (Associated Press)