Identical Strangers

This is an relatively interesting account of identical twins who discovered each other's existence in their 30's. The first few chapters get annoying. One of the twins spends a good deal of time re-writing every event in her life in terms of being a twin. At several points, she writes "maybe I am ov......more

Identical Strangers A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein was an interesting and informative read. Though I'm not a twin, nor have I ever harboured some secret desire to have been one, I always find myself intrigued by the relationship between twins. Some of my......more

2.5 stars An interesting memoir of two women who found out in their 30s that they were identical twins—separated at birth by their adoption agency and placed with different families, neither of which was told that their new daughter was a twin. The discovery of their connection sent them on a persona......more

This would have been a great article in a magazine. All the interesting stuff could have fit nicely in a few pages of smallish print. But instead it was a book. The twin's voices were fairly indistinguishable to me, and neither was a very enthralling memoirist. Reading facts about the oddities twins......more

I love a good human interest story, and this book fit the bill. It also fed my fascination with multiples that began when I became good friends with identical twins in junior high. Separated at birth and raised by two different adoptive families, Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein are reunited nearly......more