When Jenny is shot to death, Blanche embarks on a quest that involves both survival and justice. Jenny is inquisitive, and her questions over a shared meal of frogs’ legs make Blanche examine her life choices.
But during a smallpox epidemic, she meets Jenny Bonnet, who, in the words of author Emma Donoghue, is “a risk-loving, cross-dressing, quirky young woman who live as if she knew she’d only get 27 years.” Leaving Paris’s Cirque d’Hiver, she establishes herself as a dancer in the House of Mirrors, entertaining many of its patrons after-hours, using this income to keep her companions Arthur and Ernest fed and clothed in the best bohemian style. In the 1870s, people are moving there from across the globe, and Blanche Beunon is among them. The gold rush is over, and San Francisco is growing into the eclectic Californian city we know today. Emma Donoghue discusses her latest novel.
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