Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

"An astonishing story, by turns ghastly, hilarious, unnerving, and moving."-Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

In this "excellent" portrait of America's famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in the conjoined lives of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874) a trenchant "comment on the times in which we live" (Wall Street Journal). "Uncovering ironies, paradoxes and examples of how Chang and Eng subverted what Leslie Fiedler c...