The legal age for prostitution is 10, but that’s better than what goes on in the “schools” for delinquent children or on the flourishing baby market. Health officials have only tenuous control over a raging smallpox epidemic. Donoghue has the whole rambunctious city swarming through this book. The shaky city is aflame with crime, disease and racial violence, fueled by grotesque extremes of wealth and poverty. “ Frog Music” - her first historical novel set in America - takes us to San Francisco in the broiling summer of 1876. The millions of readers who know Donoghue only from the harrowing tale of that little boy will discover in “Frog Music” just how expansive and boisterous this Irish Canadian author can be. Emma Donoghue has broken out of her “Room.” Four years after that bestselling story of a mother and child imprisoned in a garden shed, she’s back with a novel ravenous for space, for people, for sounds - for all the life that 5-year-old Jack never had.
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