“Very amazing story about 2 girls whose identity was mistaken at a horrible car accident that took 7 peoples lives. Despite this families realization (after 5 weeks of living with a false reality) the families chose to not harbor resentment or anger on anyone such as the campus faculty who wrongly identified the girls, each family for not knowing sooner the identity of their children, or God for letting something so tragic happen to them. The actual accident survivor Whitney Cerac has done an amazing amount of recovery but as the frontal lobe of the brain was damaged, has a slightly different personality. I love the optimism of Whitney for seeing this tragedy as an opportunity for a different life God has planned for her with her new experience and identity.
It was fascinating to read about Whitney's recovery process and how the brain when damaged/traumatized reorganizes all of the information mixed up. I loved reading about the support from each family, especially (deceased) Carly's sister who was uncertain about the identity of the girl she was helping but still wanted the very best for this girls recovery, despite she not being her sister. It was so great to see how the community came together and supported the families who lost students and also those who supported Carly/Whitney in the recovery process.
As for literary value, parts of the book were a little too drawn out and repetitive. The ghost writer should have been on top of that as understandably, the ones telling the story weren't professional writers. The story pretty much told itself though. ”
Jenny V wrote this review Sunday, October 4 2009.
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