![]() ![]() There are lots of stupid things about Lake Main. But it made me miss Briarly, where no one would have done that. ![]() Some people are absolute assholes, but I already knew that, and I worked to remember that it didn’t have that much to do with me. In other words, the humiliation happened, but not the actual killing myself in the hallway. And Logan got the unsavory task of telling me that it was there, and the heroic one of throwing it out. So everyone got to imagine me slipping and falling without it actually happenin. What happened instead was that Logan (and everyone else) saw it there and Logan threw it in the trash chute that goes from the third floor to the inaccessible garbage dump in the basement. The central idea of growing up while overcoming an adversity is developed via a story line blended between her old life (before the accident) and her current life (after the accident). Whoever did it apparently thought it would be funny if I stepped onto it and-what? Went flying headfirst into the bank of lockers? Slipped like a cartoon character on a banana peel? Cracked my skull against the floor or a wall? The novel, Blind, by Rachel DeWoskin is a journey into the mind of a high school girl who is suddenly blinded by a tragic accident. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: ![]()
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