About the book: 1909 / If you are on the billboard of a circus, booth or just a visiting troupe promising an “unprecedented” performance in the hall of a local hotel, you will read among the artists: “brothers”, “sisters” or “family” of such and such, then know that in most cases, these artists are the same brothers, sisters, fathers and children among themselves, like any people who accidentally meet each other. They are usually brought together by need and familiar business, and the named brothers and sisters wander from city to city until they tire of each other to the point of mortal enmity. The intrepid tightrope walkers, the American women, the famous “Brown sisters” were the same random relatives, representing a partnership on shares, and the eldest, Clara, was in charge of the administrative and financial parts, that is, she concluded contracts, received salaries, issued expenses and invented numbers; the youngest, Elsa, took over the household, that is, during their nomadic life, had all the explanations with the servants, looked after the wardrobe, took care of the rope, net, balances and in all cases of her life, meek and submissive, obeyed the energetic and imperious Clara.