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Going Blind - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Going Blind - A Memoir (Paperback)
Series: Excelsior Editions
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Mara Faulkner grew up in a family shaped by Irish ancestry, a
close-to-the-bone existence in rural North Dakota, and the secret
of her father's blindness--along with the silence and shame
surrounding it. Dennis Faulkner had retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic
disease that gradually blinded him and one that may blind many
members of his family, including the author. Moving and insightful,
Going Blind explores blindness in its many permutations--within the
context of the author's family, more broadly, as a disability
marked by misconceptions, and as a widely used cultural metaphor.
Mara Faulkner delicately weaves her family's story into an analysis
of the roots and ramifications of the various metaphorical meanings
of blindness, touching on the Catholic Church of the 1940s and
1950s, Japanese internment, the Germans from Russia who dominated
her hometown, and the experiences of Native people in North Dakota.
Neither sentimental nor dispassionate, the author asks whether it's
possible to find gifts when sight is lost.
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