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Things No Longer There : A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision
Things No Longer There A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision Author:Susan Krieger Things No Longer There is a lovingly crafted collection of personal stories about the authors struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight. It is also about invisible landscapesplaces of the heart that linger long after they have disappeared from the world outside. In these ten brief tales and one novella-length intimate d... more »rama, Susan Krieger takes us on a series of adventures in vision, a journey both inward and to various parts of the country. We travel with her as she goes birdwatching before sunrise in the New Mexico desert, learns to walk with a white cane, revisits an old love, returns to a summer camp of her youth, and reflects on the nature of blindness and sight. Kriegers touching memoir explores the ways that outer landscapes may change and sight may be lost, but inner visions persist, giving meaning, jarring the senses with a very different picture than what appears before the eyes. This book will reward both the general reader and those interested in disability studies, feminist ethnography, and lesbian studies.« less