Oh my goodness, I read Blind about a month ago and completely forgot to blog about it! One time when I was little (around 4 or 5) the power had gone out in the middle of the night, but I didn't realize it and just thought I had go blind. I was in a complete panic till my mother showed up in my bedroom to explain what happened. Unfortunately for Emma, the main character in Blind, this unthinkable tragedy happens to her and there is no "waking up from it". After a horrific accident leaves her blind, Emma has to figure out how to live again. She does this at the same time as she is trying to make sense of why a friend of hers took her own life. I really liked this book. So much of the imagery of books is visual..."this person looked like this" or "the setting looked like this." With Emma giving a first person narrative, you don't get that. The author did a great job describing Emma's world to us as she "saw" it with her other senses and feelings. Great read.
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