"The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight" by Andrew Leland

"The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight" by Andrew Leland

As a teenager, Andrew Leland started to lose his sight. One day, in all likelihood, he will be blind. In his moving new memoir, "The Country of the Blind," he reckons with his soon-to-be blindness while also challenging us to think differently about our ablest world.

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