Planet of the Blind
Stephen Kuusisto, 1998
CALL NO...: 02-BOO
TYPE......: Book
ACCESS....: SEE BELOW
A coming-out story as a blind person, by a poet raised by parents who denied his disability and taught him to pass as sighted. Precise, sensory, and beautiful about the in-between world of partial blindness. A New York Times Notable Book and a model for writing the body without tragedy or triumph.
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Available at many public libraries, on Bookshare (free for print-disabled individuals), and from Dial Press / Sheridan House. Audiobook available.