Among the Wonderful by Stacy Carlson
“In 1842 New York City, P.T. Barnum opened his American Museum. It was part zoo, part freak show, part natural history museum, part theater, part restaurant, part . . . You get the picture. Among the Wonderful imagines the lives of two of its employees—Ana Swift, Giantess, and Emile Guillaudeu, Taxidermist. They are very different …