PositiveThe Wall Street JournalMr. Huang does an excellent job in depicting an antebellum America hungry for diversion from the brewing conflict over constitutional slavery. His descriptions of the New York City of that era, and of the show-business personalities the twins met (including Barnum), are raffish and vivid. And the great question he poses is compelling: Were Chang and Eng \'freaks\' due only to their physical appearance? Or were they also freaks due to their race? ... Mr. Huang is less successful in depicting the two men as individuals ... Despite its shortcomings, Inseparable is a compelling study, and its author is unafraid of enlivening his narrative with a playful intelligence, an attractive humor, and incidents of his own life as an Asian American living in the South.