Publisher's Synopsis
We meet Andrew Leland as he's suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he's midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from the outside in, such that he now sees the world as if through a narrow tube. Part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, 'The Country of the Blind' represents Leland's determination not to merely survive this transition but to grow from it - to seek out and revel in that which makes blindness enlightening.
