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

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emotional hopeful informative lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

Poignant, illuminating, engaging, lovely
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challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A must read for anyone who wants to understand the modern experience of disability, or feel validated in their own interactions with oppressive systems. This book is impressively intersectional, touching on sexism, racism, religious, and other cultural overlap with the blind community. Leland writes with great insight, compassion, and clarity on a topic few authors have tried to tackle: a disability narrative with the nuances fully present, challenging, and affirming to anyone who's living with similar struggles and joys.
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informative medium-paced

4.0

I enjoyed this book a lot! Reading about Andrew Leland’s experience as someone who is becoming blind but doesn’t feel as though he belongs in either the sighted or the blind world provided an interesting perspective. I definitely feel as though this is a book for sighted people, not for blind people, as it tackled a lot of internalized ableism and barriers for non-disabled people to viewing disabled people as people. I thought he tackled intersectionality well, though I think I’d like to read books by Black, disabled women to get that lived perspective. A solid entry into nonfiction about blindness!
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