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A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
Published by Random House
NEW! "Once you find someone," writes Paula Bernstein, "You can't unfind her." Paula and Elyse Schein are identical twins, who were separated as infants by an adoption agency and lived completely separate lives until age 35, when Elyse sought out the twin she never knew.
Paula, a married mother and successful writer living in New York, was stunned when she learned from the agency she had an identical twin sister. Elyse, a successful filmmaker who lived in Paris, was equally surprised with the news. She knew she had been adopted, but was completely unaware of her twin. Even more surprising for both is that Elyse and Paula had been part of a secret academic study regarding the separation of twins.
Reunited, Paula and Elyse learn how they are similar and how they are different. Sharing mannerisms, speech, allergies and love of movies, the two find the similarities eerie - almost like seeing yourself from the outside.
Writing with honesty about their life-altering discovery that a stranger shares their DNA, Elyse and Paula write in alternating voices of their journey toward the intimacy of twins that was denied them for much of their lives. Publisher's Weekly calls their story "a transfixing memoir" while Reader's Digest declares "Identical Strangers" "poignant."
288 pages, hardbound
9-1/3 x 6 x 1-1/4" |
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