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A review by mmccombs
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
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!
Graphic: Ableism
Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism