Blind by rachel dewoskin6/30/2023 “As soon as Blythe and I got to the art room, Mrs. Rachel DeWoskin, a memoirist and novelist who here makes her first foray into young-adult literature, deftly mines the territory of friendships, fitting in and growing up through Emma’s experiences.Įmma yearns after a boy in her class who she’s worshipped from afar since sixth grade, notices the occasional disconnect between her father and mother and silently sasses her teachers: It’s a deep dive into the uncertainty of adolescence, and a peek into complicated family dynamics. A fireworks accident the summer before ninth grade robbed her of her eyesight, and after a year’s rehabilitation at a school for the blind, she’s back at her old school.īut “Blind” is much more than a story of how Emma learns once more to live in the sighted world. On her first day of sophomore year at Lake Main High School, “the office smelled like the core of school-earth, an even more intense version of the hallway’s sloppy joe meat and hot Xeroxed copies, Bactine, Windex, sneakers, molding books,” she tells us.Įmma has to describe her world this way, because she can’t see. Emma experiences the world in sounds and smells.
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