Blanche, formerly of the Parisian Cirque d’Hiver, is now an exotic dancer living with her pimp Arthur and his close friend Ernest. It is based loosely on the true and unsolved crime – The San Miguel Mystery-the unsolved murder of 27-year-old Jenny Bonnett, a cross-dressing transgressive who worked as a frogcatcher – catching and selling frogs to French and Chinese restaurants.įind out more about Emma Donoghue’s research here –īlanche, the narrator of the novel, and Jenny are two women striving to scrape a living in a turbulent and violent city. “Frog Music” -Emma Donoghue’s first historical novel set in America - takes us to San Francisco in the boiling summer of 1876 and for a true life tale that shocked the city at the time and which in Frog Music is brought back to its seedy crime ridden life.Ĭrime, disease and racial violence are not the only things keeping this city aflame however, there are immigrants threatening to riot, a shaky atmosphere pervades the air and there is always the threat of a smallpox epidemic to contend with.
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