The Virgin Cure: Casting Call!
- Tue Nov 22 2011
- Stacy Lee Kong
If Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure were a movie, we know just who we'd cast. Check out our picks and weigh in on our choices in the comments!
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Ami McKay’s book tour diary: Homesick
- Wed Nov 16 2011
- Ami McKay
I've been on the road almost non-stop since Oct. 25. In the larger scheme of things, it's a fairly insignificant amount of time, but as the days roll along, I can feel homesickness creeping in bit by bit.
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Discussion: The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay, Part 2
- Thu Nov 10 2011
- Laurie Grassi
All alone on the grim streets of New York, plucky Moth tries to protect herself, but dangers lurk around every corner. Stacy, Alex and I discuss pages 117 to 230 of The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay.
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Discussion: Part 1 of The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
- Thu Nov 03 2011
- Laurie Grassi
Check out our first official Chatelaine Book Club pick: Ami McKay’s The Virgin Cure. In part one (pages 1-116), we meet 12-year-old Moth, who finds herself out on the streets after her mother sells her into service.
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Ami McKay’s book tour diary: On the road again…
- Wed Nov 02 2011
- Ami McKay
Writing a novel is largely a solitary effort. Months of putting pen to paper (and fingertips to the keyboard) go by, and in the midst of building a world out of words, you forget what’s to come after you type “The End.”
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Excerpt: Ami McKay’s The Virgin Cure
- Tue Nov 01 2011
- Laurie Grassi
In this passage from The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay, our heroine Moth wakes one night to find that a mother’s love is anything but a sanctuary.
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