No one has written fiction about this particular subject matter before, although there is some basis in fact for the mar riage of Siamese twins. Rossner became fascinated by a picture of real Siamese twins who married sisters and had twenty- one children between them.

When the sisters could not get along, they moved to two houses, and the twins divided their time between them. They were never separated, dying in 1914, before successful operations were possible.

Although the subject matter is unique, Attachments has been called by Jerome Charyn "a kind of Lolita in reverse: the female's terrifying quest for identity through sexual power and lust. We purr at the exotic. We fondle it, we move up close to it, smother it, until it becomes more and more like ourselves . . . Funny, sexy, and sad, Attachments is a crazy treatise on 'love' as the ultimate executioner."