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Viking Press Inc
19 November 2014
Unflinching in its portrayal of Emma's darkest days, yet full of hope and humor, Rachel DeWoskin's brilliant Blind is one of those rare books that utterly absorbs the reader into the life and experience of another.

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.

Unflinching in its portrayal of Emma's darkest days, yet full of hope and humor, Rachel DeWoskin's brilliant Blind is one of those rare books that utterly absorbs the reader into the life and experience of another.
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Imprint:   Viking Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 217mm,  Width: 146mm,  Spine: 34mm
Weight:   528g
ISBN:   9780670785223
ISBN 10:   0670785229
Pages:   416
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 12 to 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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 has written two novels, Repeat After Me, and Big Girl Small, the coming of age story of a sixteen-year-old with dwarfism. Big Girl Small received the American Library Association's Alex Award, and Rachel's conversations with young readers inspired her to write her first YA novel, Blind. Rachel lives in Chicago and Beijing with her husband, playwright Zayd Dohrn, and their two little girls.

Reviews for Blind

Praise for Blind A profound YA debut -- Publishers Weekly , starred review With traces of John Green's Looking for Alaska . . . a vivid, sensory tour of the shifting landscapes of blindness and teen relationships -- Kirkus , starred review A gracefully written, memorable, and enlightening novel. -- Booklist A well-researched and much-needed story. Emma is a capable heroine who manages her disability with realism and grace. -- School Library Journal More praise for Rachel DeWoskin: Wonderfully engaging . . . captures the way adolescence renders one's own identity somehow unknowable -- The Boston Globe on Big Girl Small Amusing, hypnotic . . . Like a contemporary version of The Wizard of Oz or its coming-of-age antecedent, Alice in Wonderland , Judy's experiences of adolescence are exhilarating, terrifying, and almost uniformly surreal. -- Time Out (New York) on Big Girl Small Cultures don't so much collide as coalesce in DeWoskin's sparkling debut novel . . . Infusing her multicultural narrative with vibrant observations that glitter with laser-intense acuity, DeWoskin demonstrates a smart, sophisticated literary agility. -- Booklist , starred review, on Repeat After Me A tender story of manic love and loss, this is a heartbreaking and uplifting novel with memorably off-kilter leads. -- Publishers Weekly on Repeat After Me An intelligent and complex portrait . . . DeWoskin deserves special praise. -- The Wall Street Journal on Foreign Babes in Beijing


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