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Blind
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  • Published: 7 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780698137097
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

Blind

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Unflinching yet full of hope, a young girl learns to rediscover life after a tragic accident leaves her blind.

“With traces of John Green’s Looking for Alaska . . . a vivid, sensory tour of the shifting landscapes of blindness and teen relationships.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“A gracefully written, memorable, and enlightening novel.”—Booklist

What do you see when your world goes dark?

When Emma Sasha Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything from walking across the street to recognizing her own sisters to imagining colors. One of seven children, Emma used to be the invisible kid, but now it seems everyone is watching her. And just as she’s about to start high school and try to recover her friendships and former life, one of her classmates is found dead in an apparent suicide.

Fifteen and blind, Emma has to untangle what happened and why—in order to see for herself what makes life worth living.
  • Published: 7 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780698137097
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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About the author

Rachel DeWoskin

Rachel DeWoskin spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera that inspired her memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing. She is the author of Repeat After Me and Big Girl Small, which received the American Library Association's Alex Award for an adult book with special appeal to teen readers; Rachel's conversations with young readers inspired her to write her first YA novel, Blind. Rachel is on the faculty of the University of Chicago, where she teaches creative writing. She lives in Chicago with her husband, playwright Zayd Dohrn, and their two daughters.
Rachel and her family spent six summers in Shanghai while she researched Someday We Will Fly.
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Praise for Blind

2012 ALA Alex Award Recipient.
The Alex Awards honor books written for adults that have a special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.

DeWoskin deftly captures the often vicious dynamics of adolescents . . . and creates in Judy an unforgettable character, one who is, by turns, sardonic and heartbreakingly vulnerable.