emma donoghue is one of those authors who does all the right things when it comes to her historical fiction. which makes it a perfect book to have read during this polar vortex situation. it is an entirely serious book based on an unsolved murder case in san francisco in 1876, during the smallpox epidemic and a terrible heat wave. One journalist kindly alerted me to the fact that there was a hoax in my Wikipedia entry, a claim that I was writing about 'the murder of a cross-dressing frog-catcher!' - and was abashed when I told him it was true.Īnd it is indeed a story about that, although it sounds a bit silly described that way, but it's not at all a silly book.
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