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Original Title:	Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope
ISBN:	1416567356 (ISBN13: 9781416567356)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Van Ryn family, Cerak family with Whitney

Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope

Don Van Ryn

Hardcover | Pages: 275 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 8222 Users | 982 Reviews

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Title	:	Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope
Author	:	Don Van Ryn
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 275 pages
Published	:	March 25th 2008 by Simon and Schuster (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Christian. Autobiography. Memoir

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Meet Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak: one buried under the wrong name, one in a coma and being cared for by the wrong family.

This shocking case of mistaken identity stunned the country and made national news. Would it destroy a family? Shatter their faith? Push two families into bitterness, resentment, and guilt?

Read this unprecedented story of two traumatized families who describe their ordeal and explore the bond sustaining and uniting them as they deal with their bizarre reversal of life lost and life found.

And join Whitney Cerak, the sole surviving student, as she comes to terms with her new identity, forever altered, yet on the brink of new beginnings.

Mistaken Identity weaves a complex tale of honesty, vulnerability, loss, hope, faith, and love in the face of one of the strangest twists of circumstance imaginable.

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Ratings: 4.05 From 8222 Users | 982 Reviews

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I expected this book to be full of emotion and truth. While the book was inspirational, I had no opportunity to truly understand the families because we were given one side of all of them - a positive side. While I admire both families' strength, I know that there had to be some darkness given such a difficult situation. I would have felt more connected to all of them if that was shared.This picture perfect tale of a heart-wrenching event left me void of emotion. Not at all what I was expecting.



I was drawn to this story after seeing part of an interview on Oprah. As an avid reader of true life stories I was interested in founding out more about this tragic event. Instead I got more of a lesson on the family's version of Christianity. I am sure that the families involved are all lovely people who then shared a tragedy that I could not imagine. I also have a daughter the same age as Whitney so I felt I may have connected with the story in some way. However this book was not well written

It was okay. I was interested enough to finish it, but I couldn't really suggest it in good faith. There are way more interesting things to be reading. What I learned from this book is that I still have issues with people who are very religious, and should not be face to face with them for too long, as at some point they will mention their faith and then I will roll my eyes, and then they will be offended.

The central question of this short book was never answered. Two girls from good Christian families (much is made of this, but I can't see how the book would have been any different - other than even thinner - if they'd been atheists) were in a car crash. One was killed and buried without her parents ever seeing her presumably-mangled body. The other lived but was in a coma. The two girls had been the same age, both blue-eyed blondes and from the pictures, quite similar-looking. There was even a

You probably remember this story from the news: a van carrying a group of students from Taylor University is involved in a horrible crash with five dead. After 5 weeks, it is discovered that there had been an error in identification, and that Laura Van Ryn, whose family had been by her side 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, was actually Whitney Cerak. Let that sink in a minute. The Cerak family had buried "Whitney" weeks earlier, and her mother, Colleen, gets a phone call at 2:00 a.m. saying that

This book was definitely worth reading but left me with a strange feeling afterwards. A group of teens are in a serious car accident. One girl survives and ends up in a critical condition in hospital. Another of the girls dies. Somehow there is a mix-up and the wrong family is notified that their daughter is in the hospital. The family with the surviving daughter are notified mistakenly that their daughter has died and start the grieving process. This is when the story becomes almost