Thursday, July 14, 2011

Someone Else's Twin : The True Story Of Babies Switched At Birth
by Nancy L. Segal

Due to human error at a hospital in the Canary Islands, identical twins Begona and Delia were switched with another infant. Neither of the two families knew that anything was wrong until twenty-eight years later when the twins finally met each other. DNA testing was done for the final proof and both sets of families were shocked and traumatized. The case was aired on television with lawsuits against the hospital.
Dr. Segal, herself a twin, talks about genetics, identity, the psychology of twins, and how a mistake at birth can devastate the lives of everybody involved.
With one hundred pages left to read, I stopped. The book is supposed to focus on this one set of twins but it ends up going in all kinds of directions. Dr. Segal is a professor of psychology and is supposed to be this expert on twin research. She's no writer, that's for sure. There is so much repetition and filler that the book could have been a magazine article instead.
I got bored and impatient. Dr. Segal has written other books on twins but I won't be bothering with them, either.
Not recommended.

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