![]() ![]() "Drinkers shuffle arm in arm from bar to bar, bawling dirty choruses knots of men head for the bordels on Commercial or Pacific. She's a pistol-packing, pants-wearing gal in a town where pants on women are one of the few cardinal sins, and she scratches out a living catching frogs and selling them to local restaurants.Īs the book opens, Jenny comes rolling along a busy San Francisco street on a stolen bicycle. There's real frog music in these pages, the riveting cries of the creatures hunted by Jenny Bonnet, one of the two main characters. San Francisco in the summer of the 1876, between the Gold Rush and the smallpox epidemic, is the setting for Emma Donoghue's boisterous new novel, Frog Music. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Frog Music Author Emma Donoghue ![]()
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