Books by Ami McKay and Complete Book Reviews

The Birth House
The Birth House
Ami McKay, Author . Morrow $24.95 (385p) ISBN 978-0-06-113585-9
Canadian radiojournalist McKay was unable to ferret out the life story of late midwife Rebecca Steele, who operated a Nova Scotia birthing center out of McKay's Bay of Fundy house in the early 20th century; the result of her unsatisfied...
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The Virgin Cure
The Virgin Cure
Ami McKay. Harper, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-114032-7
McKay’s harsh yet hopeful second novel (after The Birth House) explores how women’s lives were shaped by their socioeconomic status in the bleak tenements of 1870s lower Manhattan. Moth is 12 years old and living with her mother, a “slum-house...
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The Witches of New York
The Witches of New York
Ami McKay. Harper Perennial, $15.99 trade paper (544p) ISBN 978-0-06-235992-6
In this weighty, wonderful novel, McKay (The Virgin Cure) takes a sidelong glance at misogyny through a veil of witches, ghosts, and other mystical entities in 1880 New York. Seer Adelaide Thom and witch and apothecary Eleanor St. Clair are the...
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