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?About the Author Lisa Brown is a New York Times bestselling illustrator, author, and cartoonist.
Her work includes a slew of illustrated books including Goldfish Ghost by Lemony Snicket; The Airport Book, Picture the Dead with Adele Griffin; and Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert.
For adults, Long Story Short is a collection of comic strips about classic novels.
She lives in San Francisco and teaches in the illustration department of the California College of the Art.
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First Second The phantom twin, paperback/lisa brown
