From the author of the number one Canadian bestseller the birth house comes the story of a young girl abandoned to the streets of post-civil war New York city. "I am moth, a girl from the lowest part of chrystie street, ...From the author of the number one Canadian bestseller the birth house comes the story of a young girl abandoned to the streets of post-civil war New York city. "I am moth, a girl from the lowest part of chrystie street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart." So begins The Virgin Cure, a novel set in the tenements of lower manhattan in the year 1871.