Frog Music
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4.1 • 8 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything - and leaving one of them dead.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The author of the harrowing international bestseller Room shows remarkable range with this historical novel set in 19th-century San Francisco. Frog Music opens with an explosive murder and weaves together a whodunit mystery with the moving story of an unlikely friendship between a French burlesque dancer and a gutsy, cross-dressing frog hunter. Emma Donoghue’s fantastically strong-willed characters and flair for depicting an anarchic, outlaw era of shifting morals and bold dreams make this heady novel a real page-turner.
