The book is "Identical Strangers; A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited" and the authors are Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein.
The book is non fiction with alternating entries by the two authors, identical twins who were adopted and raised by diffferent families. Elyse is in her mid-thirties and living in Paris when she begins to search for information about her birth mother. She never finds the mother but she does discover her identical twin. The two women meet and discover that they have much in common-- so much so that their chronicle is an important contribution to the dialogue about whether we are shaped more by nature or nurture.
Should twins be separated? How different would their lives have been if they had been raised together? These are the recurring questions that haunt these two women as they struggle to forge a new bond. Fortunately they are both articulate writers and have produced a fascinating, self written case study.
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