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In her bestseller Room, writer Emma Donoghue imagined what life would be like for a little boy born into captivity, to a mother who'd been kidnapped and sexually assaulted. And in her new novel, Frog ...

Emma Donoghue’s latest novel has many facets, all of them fascinating. Like her short-story collection “Astray” and her novel “Slammerkin,” “Frog Music” is a detailed slice of historical drama, this ...

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. There's real frog music in these pages, ...