Set in 1876 San Francisco, California, against the backdrop of a smallpox epidemic and seething racial tensions, Emma Donoghue’s exquisitely crafted literary thriller, Frog Music (Little Brown, $27), vividly captures the post Gold-Rush frontier town’s tumultuous transition to modern city. Based on a real unsolved murder case, the story centers on Blanche Beunon, a popular burlesque dancer and soiled dove who befriends Jenny Bonnet, an eccentric young free-spirit who wears men’s clothing
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