Identical Strangers is set in the typeface of Sabon, which makes the reading a bit more personal since you get a view of what each individual is thinking/feeling or trying to express. Each woman narrates her own story but you have to pay close attention to who's story your reading or you can easily get confused.This memoir is quite fascinating and will hold your attention from beginning to end. You will be outraged that these twins and many more like them were separated and unknowingly put into a study. Furthermore, the details of this "study" will remain sealed until 2066, when many of subjects will likely be deceased.
The unethical ramifications of this study have changed the lives of many in positive and negative ways. This personal account will give you a view into why it is important to have ethics and informed consent in Social Research.
This memoir is beautifully written but a tad bit on the long side. A great story overall.
Grade: B
Synopsis
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.
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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