Near the end of Frog Music,⁠[1] Emma Donoghue’s novel about the murder of Jenny Bonnet, a cross-dressing woman living in 1870s San Francisco, her friend, Blanche Beunon, muses, “To think of all the lives Jenny tossed aside to live this particular one.” Fiction gives us a sense of alternate lives, always holding the destiny of […]

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