![]() ![]() Blinded in a fireworks accident, Emma Silver has finally learned to find shorelines with her white cane and identify her six wildly different siblings by their breathing. 14, 2014 With traces of John Green’s Looking for Alaska (2005), DeWoskin’s first teen novel explores death and darkness. “ Blind is soon to be on the tips of everyone’s tongues.” -Bustle. Blind When Emma Sasha Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything from walking across the street to recognizing her own. BLIND by Rachel DeWoskin RELEASE DATE: Aug. for sheer emotional profundity and the elusive feeling of living another person's experience through fiction, DeWoskin is hard to beat." - SF Weekly allow readers to inhabit another person’s soul so fully that they will be unable to separate the heroine’s pain from their own and become a little less blind to human suffering. DeWoskin tells her tale with humor, hope, and powerful reality." - LMC "The vivid text and the colorful descriptions allow the reader to imagine how and what a blind person sees. Emma is a capable heroine who manages her disability with realism and grace." - School Library Journal "A well-researched and much-needed story. "A gracefully written, memorable, and enlightening novel." - Booklist a vivid, sensory tour of the shifting landscapes of blindness and teen relationships" - Kirkus, starred review "With traces of John Green’s Looking for Alaska. "A profound YA debut" - Publishers Weekly, starred review ![]()
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