Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other. In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Little, Brown, 27 (416p) ISBN 978-8-7 Donoghue’s first literary crime novel is a departure from her bestselling Room, but it’s just as dark and just. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts.
The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers and arrogant millionaires of jealous men, icy women and damaged children. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room: Her greatest achievement yetEmma Donoghue shows more than range with Frog Music she shows genius.- Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic.
"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco.
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