From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room:
"Her greatest achievement yet...Emma Donoghue shows more than range
with FROG MUSIC--she shows genius." -- Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life
Summer of 1876: San Francisco is
in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox
epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named
Jenny Bonnet is shot dead.
The survivor, her friend Blanche
Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will
risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't
track her down first. 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. 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.
In thrilling, cinematic style,
FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. 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.