Publisher Description
When Emma Sasha Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything from walking across the street to recognizing her own sisters to imagining colors. One of seven children, Emma used to be the invisible kid, but now it seems everyone is watching her. And just as she’s about to start high school and try to recover her friendships and former life, one of her classmates is found dead in an apparent suicide. Fifteen and blind, Emma has to untangle what happened and why—in order to see for herself what makes life worth living.
Unflinching in its portrayal of Emma’s darkest days, yet full of hope and humor, Rachel DeWoskin’s brilliant Blind is one of those rare books that utterly absorbs the reader into the life and experience of another.
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“As Emma, the protagonist in adult writer DeWoskin’s profound YA debut,
knows, ‘we’re all only a half-second disaster, mistake, or choice away
from being changed forever.’ At the start of Emma’s freshman year, she loses her sight in a freak accident…While writing the book, DeWoskin learned Braille at the Chicago
Lighthouse for the Blind, and her sensitivity to details (comparing
characters’ voices to smells, textures, and colors; describing
conflicted reactions to Emma’s blindness) shows.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About Rachel DeWoskin
Rachel DeWoskin spent her twenties in China as a consultant, writer, and the unlikely
star of a nighttime soap opera called Foreign
Babes in Beijing. Her memoir of those years, Foreign Babes in Beijing, has been published in six countries and
is being developed as a television series by HBO. Her novel Repeat After Me, about a young American
ESL teacher, a troubled Chinese radical, and their unexpected New York romance,
won a Foreward Magazine Book of the
Year award. Rachel has a BA in English from Columbia University and an MFA in
poetry from Boston University. She divides her time between New York City,
Chicago, and Beijing with her husband, playwright Zayd Dohrn, and their two
little girls.