How Long to Read Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

How Long Does it Take to Read Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History?

Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang is 416 pages long, and a total of 106,496 words.

This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History aloud.

What Reading Level is Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History?

Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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