"An ingenious and absorbing book. . . . It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story."—Jonathan Spence Hailed as "irrepressibly spirited and entertaining" (Pico Iyer, Time) and &...

“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, ...