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Book Synopsis The Conjoined by : Lee, Jen Sookfong
Download or read book The Conjoined written by Lee, Jen Sookfong and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful and gripping novel from ñan undeniably talented writerî (Globe and Mail) On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her motherÍs belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery „ two dead girls curled into the bottom of her motherÍs chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng „ troubled, beautiful, and wild teenaged sisters from VancouverÍs Chinatown. After six weeks, they disappeared; social workers, police officers, and Jessica herself assumed they had run away. As Jessica learns more about Casey, Jamie, and their troubled immigrant Chinese parents, she also unearths dark stories about Donna, whom she had always thought of as the perfect mother. The complicated truths she uncovers force her to take stock of own life. Moving between present and past, this riveting novel unflinchingly examines the myth of social heroism and traces the often-hidden fractures that divide our diverse cities.
Download or read book One of Us written by Alice Domurat Dreger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. This deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the “normal.”
Download or read book One written by Sarah Crossan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'Broke my heart and mended it' - Cecilia Ahern 'It will shake up preconceptions and move readers to tears' - Sunday Times Book of the Week 'Truly remarkable' - Irish Times _______________ WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER OF THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER OF THE CLIPPA POETRY AWARD _______________ Here we are. And we are living. Isn't that amazing? How we manage to be here at all. Grace and Tippi don't like being stared and sneered at, but they're used to it. They're conjoined twins - united in blood and bone. What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two people. They want real friends. And what about love? But a heart-wrenching decision lies ahead for Tippi and Grace. One that could change their lives more than they ever asked for... This moving and beautifully crafted novel about identity, sisterhood and love ultimately asks one question: what does it mean to want and have a soulmate? _______________ Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation... Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, Toffee, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water.
Book Synopsis The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton by : Dean Jensen
Download or read book The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton written by Dean Jensen and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives and loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton follows the poignant life story of twin sisters who were literally joined at the hip, set against the tumultuous backdrop of America during the first half of the 20th century. Daisy and Violet and an unforgettable cast of show-business characters come alive on the pages of this carefully researched and sensitively written biography. Reviews "Jensen's book is a testament to the fickleness of the entertainment world." -Tampa Bay Tribune "It is an affecting story, gently and honestly told without frills, without sensation. In Jensen's hands, the twins are always human, individuals, never freaks joined at the hips as the world saw them after their birth in 1908. . . Here, their story is pure." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Download or read book Inseparable written by Yunte Huang and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Girls written by Lori Lansens and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lori Lansens’ astonishing second novel, readers come to know and love two of the most remarkable characters in Canadian fiction. Rose and Ruby are twenty-nine-year-old conjoined twins. Born during a tornado to a shocked teenaged mother in the hospital at Leaford, Ontario, they are raised by the nurse who helped usher them into the world. Aunt Lovey and her husband, Uncle Stash, are middle-aged and with no children of their own. They relocate from the town to the drafty old farmhouse in the country that has been in Lovey’s family for generations. Joined to Ruby at the head, Rose’s face is pulled to one side, but she has full use of her limbs. Ruby has a beautiful face, but her body is tiny and she is unable to walk. She rests her legs on her sister’s hip, rather like a small child or a doll. In spite of their situation, the girls lead surprisingly separate lives. Rose is bookish and a baseball fan. Ruby is fond of trash TV and has a passion for local history. Rose has always wanted to be a writer, and as the novel opens, she begins to pen her autobiography. Here is how she begins: I have never looked into my sister’s eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially. Ruby, with her marvellous characteristic logic, points out that Rose’s autobiography will have to be Ruby’s as well — and how can she trust Rose to represent her story accurately? Soon, Ruby decides to chime in with chapters of her own. The novel begins with Rose, but eventually moves to Ruby’s point of view and then switches back and forth. Because the girls face in slightly different directions, neither can see what the other is writing, and they don’t tell each other either. The reader is treated to sometimes overlapping stories told in two wonderfully distinct styles. Rose is given to introspection and secrecy. Ruby’s style is "tell-all" — frank and decidedly sweet. We learn of their early years as the town "freaks" and of Lovey’s and Stash’s determination to give them as normal an upbringing as possible. But when we meet them, both Lovey and Stash are dead, the girls have moved back into town, and they’ve received some ominous news. They are on the verge of becoming the oldest surviving craniopagus (joined at the head) twins in history, but the question of whether they’ll live to celebrate their thirtieth birthday is suddenly impossible to answer. In Rose and Ruby, Lori Lansens has created two precious characters, each distinct and loveable in their very different ways, and has given them a world in Leaford that rings absolutely true. The girls are unforgettable. The Girls is nothing short of a tour de force.
Book Synopsis Conjoined Twins in Black and White by : Linda Frost
Download or read book Conjoined Twins in Black and White written by Linda Frost and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christine McKoy, African American twins born in 1851, and Daisy and Violet Hilton, English twins born in 1908, speak for themselves through memoirs that help us understand what it is like to live physically joined to someone else. Conjoined Twins in Black and White provides contemporary readers with the twins’ autobiographies, the first two “show histories” to be republished since their original appearance, a previously unpublished novella, and a nineteenth-century medical examination, each of which attempts to define these women and reveal the issues of race, gender, and the body prompted by the twins themselves. The McKoys, born slaves, were kidnapped and taken to Britain, where they worked as entertainers until they were reunited with their mother in an emotional chance encounter. The Hiltons, cast away by their horrified mother at birth, worked the carnival circuit as vaudeville performers until the WWII economy forced them to the burlesque stage. The hardships, along with the triumphs, experienced by these very different sister sets lend insight into our fascination with conjoined twins.
Download or read book Gemini written by Sonya Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small town, as high school graduation approaches, two conjoined sisters must weigh the importance of their dreams as individuals against the risk inherent in the surgery that has the potential to separate them forever.
Download or read book Conjoined Twins written by Brad Gosse and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If one commits a crime do they both go to jail? What if one is dates a male and the other dates a female? How many seats do they buy on a plane? Can they read the thoughts in one another's brain? With eight limbs are they an octopus by definition? At the movies do they pay 2 admissions? If they share a butt who decides when to Poo? If one of them dies does the other die too? If one gets pregnant are they both the kid's mom? Will they ever find two dates for the prom? What If one gets into college and the other does not? What happens if just one wants to tie the knot? Do they need one passport or two? If one wants to have sex what does the other one do? Do they both get paralyzed if they share the same spine? Do they both get drunk if just one drinks wine?
Download or read book Conjoined Twins 2 written by Brad Gosse and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if one can swim and the other can not? Can just one of them become an astronaut? How often do they need a diaper change? If they grew 100 feet tall wouldn't that be strange? When they ride the bus to they pay one price? Have they ever been trapped underneath the ice? Are they a by-product of nuclear radiation? Have they ever been left outside a fire station? If one commits arson does the other one squeal? Have they ever been served as a rich persons meal? What if one is employable and the other can't work? Have they ever been left at the side of the road by a jerk? Will they ever be able to surf gnarly waves? Can one go to church if the other prefers home stays? Can they still find a job at the circus? Have they ever tried the stand up comedy circuit? Have they ever blown away in a tropical storm? Has a government ever weaponized them for war? Do they need a special saddle to ride a horse? Do they count as one or two at the golf course? Do they attend conjoined therapy in a group? What if one likes hot and the other cold soup? What if one gets rich while the other is poor? Could they ever have a career in parkour? Do they ever go clubbing and party till the light of day? Could they ever become president of the USA?
Download or read book Conjoined Twins written by Rowena Spencer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-03-07 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although fertility drugs are increasing the incidence of twin births, conjoined twins remain rare at about 1 in 75,000 births. Nonetheless, they present a unique opportunity to learn about human development, as well as a challenge to medical professionals. In Conjoined Twins, Rowena Spencer, M.D., provides a comprehensive guide that thoroughly reviews the past century's literature on the subject and develops her theory of how these cases occur. After introductory chapters on history and embryology, the book presents a separate chapter for each of the eight main types of conjoined twins. Detailed descriptions of conjoined twins are accompanied by information valuable in planning surgical treatment, as well as extensive tables summarizing the available data on each type. Conjoined triplets and unusual conjoined twins receive attention in the final two chapters. Including line illustrations and photographs, this encyclopedic book about a complex subject will be a valuable reference for the many professionals who evaluate, treat, and study conjoined twins.
Book Synopsis The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by : Irvine Welsh
Download or read book The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins written by Irvine Welsh and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and overweight Lena Sorenson, thrilled by Lucy's heroism and decisiveness, becomes obsessed with the trainer and enrolls as a client at her Bodysculpt gym. It quickly becomes clear that Lena is more interested in Lucy's body than her own, and a budding fatal attraction takes hold. However, it's when Lucy imprisons Lena, and can't stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, that the real problems start. In Lucy and Lena, Irvine Welsh has created two of his most memorable female protagonists, and one of the most bizarre, sadomasochistic folie à deux in contemporary fiction. The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great obsessions of our time--how we look and where we live--and tells a story so subversive and dark it blacks out the Florida sun.
Download or read book The Phantom Twin written by Lisa Brown and published by First Second. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin, in Lisa Brown's The Phantom Twin, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own?
Book Synopsis Conjoined for Life: Four's a Crowd by : Cary Briel
Download or read book Conjoined for Life: Four's a Crowd written by Cary Briel and published by Goat House Books. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheila and Sally Peidamont were sisters. Twins. But they weren't like any twins that you've ever known. Besides each girl's ownership of her own head and face, the two shared everything else on their body. They shared two arms and two legs, two hands and two feet. They even shared a single heart. So whether they took a simple walk across the street or a trip to the bathroom, they did it together. They had no choice in the matter, and each was always polite. Until, that is, the blind Stephen Hobbs entered their lives. Sheila and Sally saved the blind Stephen as he stood in a crosswalk, confused and distressed, at their school, and when they did everything changed. The prospect of sharing their body became far more complicated in light of what would have to be shared for Stephen. What ended up happening was something that could easily drive normal sisters apart. But as was obvious to anyone looking, Sheila and Sally were anything but normal.
Book Synopsis When Hearts Conjoin by : Erin Marie Herrin
Download or read book When Hearts Conjoin written by Erin Marie Herrin and published by Richard Paul Evans Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Errin Herrin relates the story behind the 2006 successful, twenty-five hour surgery to separate the lower bodies of her four-year-old conjoined twins.
Book Synopsis The Lives of Chang & Eng by : Joseph Andrew Orser
Download or read book The Lives of Chang & Eng written by Joseph Andrew Orser and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
Book Synopsis Psychological Profiles of Conjoined Twins by : J. David Smith
Download or read book Psychological Profiles of Conjoined Twins written by J. David Smith and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-10-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjoined twins born before the advent of surgical separation techniques have long been of special interest to scientists. Sharing an identical genetic make-up and an identical environment, these twins have provided a unique opportunity for the study of innate and cultural determinants on the individual. Psychological Profiles of Conjoined Twins probes the striking differences in personality, ability, and interests between such twins--and consequently reexamines the prevailing assumptions in current psychological research. Smith's thoroughly documented book questions the pervasive view that human characteristics may be reduced to a simple ratio of heredity and environment. He investigataes the lives of the first recorded conjoined twins, Chang and Eng, and the lives of other, lesser known conjoined twins. The author also presents an intriguing study of the representation of conjoined twins in literature. The final chapters discuss vital philosophical and scientific questions raised by the lives of such twins, with particular emphasis on the over-simplification of traditional heredity/environment approaches.
