Frog Music

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 04/01/2014
ISBN: 9780316404587
Pages: 688
Weight: 2.08lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.28w x 2.13d
Large Print

Review Citations: New Yorker (The) 05/04/2014 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 05/22/2014 pg. 39