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  • Published: 15 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780307739292
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $49.99

Blind Sight

A Novel




In Blind Sight, Meg Howrey gives us a smart, funny, and deeply moving debut about a teenage boy and his surprising, life-altering summer with the celebrity father that he has never known.

Seventeen-year-old Luke Prescott has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy, surrounded by his divorced New Age mother, his religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. He is writing his college applications when his father—a famous television star— invites him to Los Angeles for the summer. Luke accepts and is plunged into a world of location shooting, celebrity interviews, glamorous parties, and premieres. But as he begins to know the difference between his father’s public persona and his private one, Luke finds himself questioning the new history he has created for himself.

  • Published: 15 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780307739292
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $49.99

About the author

Meg Howrey

Meg Howrey is the author of the novels Blind Sight, The Cranes Dance, The Wanderers, and most recently, They're Going to Love You, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Harvard Review, Vogue, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. A former professional dancer, she currently lives in Los Angeles.

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Praise for Blind Sight

  • FRONT COVER QUOTE: "An engaging first novel filled with the nuance and yearnings of adolescence." --Marisha Pessl, author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics
  • "This warm and surprising debut follows father and son as they come to know each other and essentially fall in love." --The New York Times
  • "Genuinely moving.... Intelligent, engaging and often funny." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel