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MISTAKEN IDENTITY
By: Whitney Cerak, Don & Susie Van Ryn

Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope

Howard Books
April 2008
On Sale: March 25, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 1416567356
EAN: 9781416567356
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir

Authors include:
Don & Susie Van Ryn, Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak

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 circumstances imaginable.

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