It is told from the perspective of Jack, the woman’s five year old son, who has never known the outside world.
Room was a novel that dealt with a young woman and her child that were held captive for many years, similar to the Fritzl case in Austria.
This is Emma Donoghue’s follow up to the 2010 novel Room, a book that she is unlikely to better in terms of sales at least. The two become unlikely friends as Blanche welcomes this cross dresser into her world. Jenny Bonnet is an unusual character, a woman who has been to jail on several times for ‘dressing as a person of the opposite sex’, a crime that is hard to believe ever existed. She literally runs into Jenny Bonnet, who is cycling a strange contraption (penny farthing bicycle) down the road and manages to knock Blanche off her feet. She is a woman who has dragged herself to the top, and still in her mid twenties is a property owner with the proceeds of her dancing and prostitution. The main character of the novel is a French ‘Show girl’ by the name of Blanche Beunon.
It is the middle of a small pox epidemic and a heat wave that is over powering the city. The book is set in San Francisco during 1876. There is something that draws you in about the world that Emma Donoghue has created for her latest novel ‘Frog Music’.
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