A teenager goes blind and laughs about.
Review
I loved this book, I may be biased though as I went to Church as a child with his Grandparents and they are some of my favorite people in the world. Ryan is legally blind and in this memoir he comes at his disability with a wonderful sense of humour. He begins his story when he first started having issues seeing and describes how much he embraced the punk scene when this happened to him as a teenager. Through wit and rapport he creates an empathy in the reader. He brings a new understanding of what it is like to be disabled and how annoying it really is to have people treat you differently, or worse indifferently.
9/10
10/10 a coming of age story that will make you think about how lucky you are but not make you feel bad for it - High School
Memorable Quotes:
"Closing my eyes is too much like nearness, like reading. It's black and it's in your face, sort of crowding you. Gazing down a prairie road stretches me and the muscles in my eyes. I don't necessarily want to see anything. Just look out.”
“The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind.”
If you enjoyed this also read:
C’mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark - Ryan Knighton (I know it is like cheating to suggest a book by the same author but he is so great just do it)
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World - A. J. Jacobs
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
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