LEADER 00000nim a22004815a 4500 003 MWT 005 20191125075851.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 180706s2018 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781684410613 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1684410614 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rcb_9781684410613_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT12160070 037 12160070|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 616/.043092|a[B]|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Huang, Yunte,|eauthor. 245 10 Inseparable :|bthe original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cYunte Huang. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bHighBridge,|c2018. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 27 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Read by PJ Ochlan. 520 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. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Bunker, Chang,|d1811-1874. 600 10 Bunker, Eng,|d1811-1874. 650 0 Conjoined twins|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 650 0 Conjoined twins|zUnited States|vBiography. 700 1 Ochlan, P. J.,|enarrator. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 12160070?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rcb_9781684410613_180.jpeg