Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein

() Imagine being in your mid-thirties and fairly settled in life. (Or maybe you don't have to imagine that part.) You're adopted, which is a fact you've already come to terms with.Then you receive a call informing you not only that you have a sibling you've been estranged from, but that this sibling is your identical twin. Well these authors didn't have to imagine - it really happened to them.

This is a true, nearly unbelievable account of two separated twins tracing their roots and the deep-seated unethical actions taken by a local Jewish adoption agency. It takes place in New York, though one twin had originally been dwelling in Paris.

The twins found uncanny similarities between them despite their very separate environments while growing up. For example, both have an intense interest in film and have at least some of their career invested in it.

They find severe mental illness has been diagnosed in their now deceased birth mother. They conduct detailed research into twinship and arrange meetings with many people to find out more about themselves and all previously mentioned topics, in general.

The story is a unique one, though I personally think it Is drawn out a little further than is necessary.