加州大学华人教授Yunte Huang前些年写过的一本奇书，语言极其优美，内容瞠目结舌：两位来自泰国的华裔连体孪生兄弟，在美国如何从最底层（freakshow的玩物）成为北卡的奴隶主，并双双娶了正常的白人姐妹，生21个娃的故事。力荐 https://www.amazon.com/Inseparable-Original-Siamese-Rendezvous-American/dp/0871404478 Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Hardcover – Deckle Edge, April 3, 2018 by Yunte Huang (Author) 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (146) 3.6 on Goodreads 641 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist (Biography) New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year One of NPR''''''''s Great Reads of 2018 A Newsweek Best Nonfiction Book of the Year With wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of America’s most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins. Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were “discovered” in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring “entertainment” to the Jacksonian mobs. Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but a Hawthorne-like excavation of America’s historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the “other”―a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself. 28 illustrations
https://www.amazon.com/Inseparable-Original-Siamese-Rendezvous-American/dp/0871404478
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Hardcover – Deckle Edge, April 3, 2018 by Yunte Huang (Author) 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (146) 3.6 on Goodreads 641 ratings
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist (Biography) New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year One of NPR''''''''s Great Reads of 2018 A Newsweek Best Nonfiction Book of the Year With wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of America’s most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins. Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were “discovered” in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring “entertainment” to the Jacksonian mobs. Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but a Hawthorne-like excavation of America’s historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the “other”―a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself. 28 illustrations
还真有点像🤭
右边的更像？不过他们是identical twins, 应该一样像的