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...Compiled by Benjamin M. Briandet, Serena M. Chang and Katrina N. Barney
...together at their chests by a 7-in. band of cartilage sounds like one of those ideas more intriguing in the conception than the execution. Once the unusual premise has been established, what's left to do? A number of good answers can be found in Darrin Strauss's Chang and Eng (Dutton; 323 pages; $23.95), a fictionalized account of the real-life, and eponymous, Siamese twins (1811-74) who were widely exhibited as touring oddities and who then settled in rural North Carolina, married a pair of sisters and fathered, between them, 21 children...
Strauss hands the narrating chores to Eng, the twin on the right-hand side of the pair, who gradually emerges as a convincingly persuasive and heroic presence--intelligent (he reads Shakespeare while Chang sleeps, sometimes resting the book on his brother's forehead) and refreshingly matter-of-fact about his preposterous physical fate...
...When the rest of us were done and asked for the check, we discovered that Chang had discreetly paid for all of us," Shin wrote in an e-mail message. "Chang was truly a unique and special human being. He will be sorely missed because there will never be anyone else like...
...survived by his parents, Kuk Nam and Jong Geum Jo of Cerritos, Calif., and an older brother, Chang B. Jo '93, of New York City...