JoAnn G. (bookwoman28) reviewed on 1/27/2007 + 166 more book reviews

After resisting this in the bookstores for a number of months, I finally picked it up, and can wholeheartedly recommend it. 'Separated at birth' by their overly protective physician-father, a 'normal, healthy' boy grows up with his parents, whose marriage suffers because of the lie between them, while his Down syndrome twin sister- whom the father tells everyone was stillborn - is rescued from institutional care by a lonely nurse, and grows up healthy and happy, knowing nothing of her 'real' birth family. There is suffering, as well as joy, all around as the reader follows both families through the twins' childhoods and into young adulthood. The weight and toll of a lie at the center of a relationship is fully explored with sensitivity. And at the end there is hope for a sort of redemption.
Lots to think about in this story.

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