![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aside from the obvious whodunit factor, the book is filled with period song lyrics and other historic details, expertly researched and flushed out. "Donoghue's first literary crime novel is a departure from her bestselling Room, but it's just as dark and just as gripping as the latter. This edition includes an afterword in which Emma Donoghue explains the historical basis of her story, and an intriguing overview of the vintage songs referenced in the book. French burlesque dancer Blanche Beunon combs Chinatown's seedy underworld to find her friend's killer, but as she also seeks the infant son she gave away, Blanche may make herself the next target of the assassin's bullet. During a heat wave in 1876 San Francisco, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead through the window of a railroad saloon, in this 2014 novel by the author of the Booker Prize-nominated bestseller, Room. ![]()
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