In this transfixing memoir, Bernstein, a freelance writer, and Schein, a filmmaker, take turns recounting the story of how each woman, at age 35, discovered she had an identical twin sister, and the ...

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Separated in infancy and given up for adoption, Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein grew up unaware that they had an identical twin. Their new memoir, Identical Strangers, chronicles their story of ...

Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein, authors of Identical Strangers, A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited, are part of the Ann Katz Festival of Books. Bernstein and Schein, identical twins, didn’t ...

What is it that makes us who we really are: our life experiences or our DNA? Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein were both born in New York City. Both women were adopted as infants and raised by loving ...