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Title	:	Frog Music
Author	:	Emma Donoghue
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2014 by Little, Brown and Company
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. Audiobook. Adult Fiction. Crime

Frog Music Hardcover | Pages: 416 pages

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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.

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Original Title:	Frog Music
ISBN:	031632468X (ISBN13: 9780316324687)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	San Francisco, California,1876(United States)
Literary Awards:	Stonewall Book Award Nominee for Literature (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2014)

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Based on the actual 1876 murder of Jenny Bonnet, a young woman whose choice of attiring herself in scandalous pants (well, scandalous for a woman) in San Francisco in the 1870s, Frog Music begins with the character of Blanche Beunon, Albert Deneve and Alberts buddy Ernest, former tightrope walkers from France. In the background San Francisco is undergoing a heat wave for the record books, and a smallpox epidemic which created an atmosphere of panic and finger-pointing at the Chinese population.

*Explanation of Review to follow.*When I finished this book, I was all like: I mean - did that SERIOUSLY just happen?That's a girl on the Penny-Farthing bike that's about to crash into you, even though you thought it was a dude at first glance. She was just minding her own business - off to catch some of these guys:She be like: YOU GUYS WOULD BE MIGHTY TASTY!!!!!! At that point, I found myself again saying this:Half the time though, I was like: why all the old-timey songs?Then I put two and two

Frog Music is a good historical work, but it seemed too short to me, and the characters felt rather detached and unrealistic.

Frog Music is an unusual and, at times, discordant composition, hopping from one event to another, revealing the underbelly of San Francisco in 1876.Based on a true unsolved crime, this is the story of Blanche and Jenny, two women striving to scrape a living in a turbulent and violent city. Blanche, former equestrienne with the Parisian Cirque d'Hiver, is now an exotic dancer living with her "maque" (pimp) Arthur and his close friend Ernest. Jenny is a cross-dressing frog-catcher of no fixed

I found that this story had not much to do with the premise of the outline. Sure, there's a murder but it's not what this book is about. It's about Blanche; just Blanche. No matter what happened in the storyline, it became about how it affected Blanche. I find Blanche a self-pitying, obnoxious, self-centered woman. I don't have to like the characters in a book, so this didn't play into my rating. But it got eye-rollingly annoying how much Blanche thought only of herself and how all the events

Somewhere between Blanche having sex with various men (and maybe women) and Blanche whining about wanting to have sex with various men (and maybe women), there was a murder. On top of all the sex and the murder, there was the worst book I have read all year. This book is suppose to be some kind of engrossing look at San Francisco during the summer of 1876 when the city was plagued with heat and a small pox outbreak. Yes, Blanche suffered (more like whined) through the heat. Yes, Blanche had a

A fascinating character study, murder mystery, and atmospheric historical fiction set in 1870s San Francisco. I appreciated how the main character Blanche is made to be neither necessarily 'likeable' nor 'good'; she's an ambivalent but loving mother, a sex worker, a woman who likes to have lots of sex, and sarcastic. The crux of the plot is the unsolved murder of her cross-dressing frog-catching friend Jenny. Fabulous audiobook performance! Something about this only feels like three stars,