From the summary:
Twenty years ago in Singapore, abandoned orphan Monica Joseph made a decision to steal her wealthy classmate's identity and move halfway around the world to build her life on someone else's name. For twenty years, she's managed to hide in plain sight…until an ambitious fledgling journalist sets out to write the inaugural full-length profile on her. With her carefully constructed persona and life's work now in jeopardy, Monica is left with no other choice: she must return to the scene of the crime—and the one place she vowed never to revisit.

Commentary:
This book was based on the idea of a young woman reinventing herself literally from the ground up. Monica went from being an orphan housemaid in Singapore, to a wealthy businesswoman in America. Monica began her life as a sickly newborn dropped on the steps of an orphanage, and was raised by nuns. Although she grew up in an orphanage and did not have a great deal of wealth, she was raised with love and given an education. After she aged out of her typical school years she took it upon herself to change her name to that of another, much more wealthy, young woman that she worked for as a maid. This gave her the opportunity of a lifetime, which was to go to university. Most people of her social standing were unable to get an education in a university due to the cost. Monica, on the other hand, had done both the essays and application handling for her much wealthier bosses daughter, and as such had direct access to all of them. When her bosses daughter asked her to handle all of the paperwork and send back the acceptance and all the other declines of acceptance, and that is when Monica saw an opportunity. After all, she was the one who loved school and excelled in her classes. Why shouldn't she have this opportunity? The sisters at the orphanage had taught her morals and honesty, and yet she could find no way to better herself and obtain this opportunity, so she decided to put her plan into action. Monica, who became known as Ami when she changed her name, proceeded to attend university and continue on to establish her own company for skin care, to help with people who suffered from the same skin issues as she did. Everything was going perfectly until she realized that someone knew her secret, and that they would be willing to destroy her and everything she worked so hard for.

I had never heard of the area, or even the history of Singapore where orphans were dropped off to be raised by the nuns. The thought of having to do this to your own child is so incredibly painful to think about, and the child not knowing where they came from, and what made a parent make the decision to abandon them in the first place is truly heartbreaking to me.

While reading this story all I could think about was if I could do the same thing that Monica did. I know what she did was right in the sense that she wouldn't have been able to go to university, and also she wouldn't have been accepted as much as she was in business if she didn't have her "wealth" behind her. It's unfortunate but it truly is a white man's world, for the most part. Would I have been able to pull it off??? Probably not! That being said, if you are looking for a book that is an easy read, and a bit of an adventure through life, this one's for you!