![]() ![]() ![]() They become a sideshow act in Mulhollan's Marvelous Circus, where their lives settle into a routine freakishness. His wife lives for only a few months after his departure, and the twins are taken in by their Aunt Sizzy. The twins' birth knocks something loose at their father's core of faith, and he eventually abandons his little family. The doctors make it so, and Nela and Bertran become a girl and a boy. Their mother wants a girl their father wants a boy. The twins share too much internally to be separated safely, and their sexual identities are maddeningly ambiguous. Near the end of the twentieth century, a pair of conjoined twins are born to a rigidly conservative and religious couple. Thoughtful as ever, takes somewhat of a different tone with this novel, her imaginative extremism reaching levels of farce where in her other works the mood remains doggedly serious. This novel, the third in the loosely related trio made up of itself, Grass, and Raising the Stones, is an enlightening blend of scathing satire and heart-stopping adventure. ![]() Tepper's Sideshow like philosophical sardines. Godhood, free will, isolationism, sexism, tolerance and basic human rights are packed into Sheri S. ![]()
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