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Someone Else's Twin: The True Story Of Babies Switched At Birth (2011)

by Nancy L. Segal(Favorite Author)

2.56 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1616144378 (ISBN13: 9781616144371)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Prometheus Books

review 1: Very interesting, and scary at the same time. The author is a twin herself, and has done research as a psychologist into twin psychology, and what happens when twins are separated, whether intentionally or not. The book is scary because it illustrates what happens if hospitals or tired nurses are not careful about handling the babies and keeping identification with them. The emotional toll on the families is immense, and in the book, several twin pairs who were united have an emotional fall out within their own (respective) families. Several children upon finding out they were twins and upon finding out they were not related to their raising families, have abandoned both sets of families. Very sad, indeed. The interesting part of this book is how strongly genetics play a r... moreole in personality and in development. Many of the twins raised without their birth families indicate they had a feeling of not belonging all their lives.
review 2: This took me a long time to get through because there wasn't enough story here, and what there was didn't make me feel much of anything. Nonfiction can be engaging; this wasn't. The text jumps around between recounting the author's trip to Spain to conduct interviews with a set of switched twins and their family members and attorneys, dry retellings of the interviews themselves (conducted with a translator, since the author didn't speak Spanish), and information about other switched twins and twin research projects the author has been involved in. less

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