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Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited

Paula Bernstein

Audio CD | Pages: 8 pages

Rating: 3.62 | 3252 Users | 551 Reviews

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Original Title:	Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
ISBN:	1428169970 (ISBN13: 9781428169975)
Edition Language:	English

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Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn’t until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. What she found instead was shocking: She had an identical twin sister. What’s more, after being separated as infants, she and her sister had been, for a time, part of a secret study on separated twins.
Paula Bernstein, a married writer and mother living in New York, also knew she was adopted, but had no inclination to find her birth mother. When she answered a call from her adoption agency one spring afternoon, Paula’s life suddenly divided into two starkly different periods: the time before and the time after she learned the truth.
As they reunite, taking their tentative first steps from strangers to sisters, Paula and Elyse are left with haunting questions surrounding their origins and their separation. And when they investigate their birth mother’s past, the sisters move closer toward solving the puzzle of their lives.

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Title	:	Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
Author	:	Paula Bernstein
Book Format	:	Audio CD
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 8 pages
Published	:	October 2nd 2007 by Recorded Books (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Parenting. Adoption. Biography. Biography Memoir

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The book is about the emotions and adjustments made by a pair of identical twins adopted separately when they are reunited. Ultimately, we learn that nature is responsible for the strangest things being similar - gestures and choice of career among them - but that identical twins can be completely different in personality and that they themselves seek to find similarities between each other, even while they deny those that exist. But not all twins are looking for more and more points where they



Added 10/12/11.I've recently been listening to the audio version of this book. Don't know if I will finish listening to all the discs because I have other more interesting CD's on the docket. After a while this book seems to repeat the same ideas over and over. So it lost my interest because it's slow in getting to the point. So far, the twins talk about looking into the reason they were separated (without their adopted parents' knowledge) and if the separation was the humane thing to do.

Really interesting and honest portrait of two women who each grew up knowing that they were adopted, but neither knowing they were an identical twin or that they had originally been part of a research study so controversial its records have been sealed and its results couldn't be published. Interspersed with their personal stories of finding out about each other and their biological family, the authors present research about both the scientific and emotional nature of identical twinship. They

Identical Strangers reads like a real-life detective story. It begins with a lady raised by adopted parents, Elyse Schein, who decides in her mid-thirties that she would like to learn who her biological mother is. Very early in the process of doing so she inadvertently discovers she has an identical twin sister, Paula Bernstein. The two ladies then pool their efforts and attempt to find out who their mother was and why they were separated during the adoption process in the first place. It turns

Absolutely gripping and very well-written. As someone (one, I am sure, of many) who occasionally fantasized about having a long-lost identical twin, the soul mate who could understand me the way no one in my life seemed able to, I realized that in reality things are much more complicated. This was a big hit with my book club. Only complaint: not enough about that fascinating party that was mentioned early on....

Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein each grew up in good families knowing that they were adopted. But at age 35 they discovered that they were twins separated by adoption agency personnel as part of a clandestine nature-versus-nurture study. They were each writers who had studied film in college, but they were leading very different lives at the time they met. They share their stories in alternating voices, peppered with a wealth of twin lore they discovered in their quest to understand each other.