Fascinating well written story that held my interest until the end

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	• Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited Elyse Schein, Paula Bernstein Random House, 2007 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 60 reviews view larger image
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Thought-provoking

I was much more deeply engrossed by IDENTICAL STRANGERS book than ever expected. Good writing, good themes, all well pulled together, and honestly presented. Been raving about it to friends. It moves, and is moving. For anyone who's ever questioned the definition of family or what makes people really connect and tick, the research woven into the story is fascinating.

A Bittersweet Story

As the mother of identical twin girls, I felt a connection to Elyse and Paula's story. It is wonderful that Elyse and Paula discovered each other, and have been so open and honest in forging their sisterly relationship. This book was interesting on multiple levels - as an account of their personal journeys through life, as the poignant tale of their troubled birth mother, and as an intriguing detective story.

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Identical Strangers

I have worked in public education for 38 years as an English teacher, guidance counselor and school social worker. I have heard many stories and watched many adolescents struggle with their lives and their journeys. I have always been impressed,amazed and moved by the courage I have seen in so many of my students. Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share their story in Identical Strangers and it is a book that is truly wonderful. Because the book uses both Paula's and Elyse's voices, it depicts their story/journey in a unique and wonderful way. As I read about each new event in their search for each other and for their own roots, I heard and felt each of their versions, reactions, and emotions and seeing and feeling a story from both Paula and Elyse was truly unique and very moving. The books is also so well researched in terms of twin studies, mental illness and adoption policies and procedures. This research coupled with Paula's and Elyse's own personal stories make Indentical Strangers so worthwhile, so enlightening and so very moving. My daughter, a PHD candidate in clinical psychology, gave me this book thinking I would like it. I did not like it; I loved it. Every reader looking for a story of love, family, courage and introspection should read this wonderful story of two sisters, twins, searching and caring for each other and their family.

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Fascinating well written story that held my interest until the end

This is a story about identical twins separated at birth by the adoption agency (without knowledge of either family) and reunited at age 34. You might think, what else is there to tell? Well, read on because this one gets even more intense and suspenseful as the story unfolds. well written and compelling, the story draws you in to the very different lives of these two women. Hurray Paula and Elyse!

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