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Tells the story of a man who was eighteen when diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that leads to blindness, giving an account of his experience of coming of age and going blind at the same time.

"One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye--forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye,...