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Blind man's bluff : a memoir / James Tate Hill.

by Hill, James Tate, author.

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New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]

Hill, James Tate.

Blind -- United States -- Biography.

Blind authors -- United States -- Biography.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

9780393867176 (hardcover) :

039386717X (hardcover) :

234 pages ; 22 cm

Prologue -- All the Answers -- Land of the Rising Sun -- Real Books -- Pass/Fail -- Make-Believe -- Incredible Shrinking World -- Too Long to Stop Now -- The Definition of Faith -- The D-Word -- Dating Tips for Those Still in -- Denial about Their Disability -- Basketball.

"A writer's humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight-and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. After high school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for Cs in his classes, Hill used his remaining blurry peripheral vision to pretend he could still see. Feigning eye contact, memorizing common routes, filling shelves with paperbacks he read via tape cassettes, he organized his life around passing for sighted. A wealth of pop culture knowledge allowed him to steer conversations from what he couldn't see. For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, things would come into focus. At thirty, faced with a stalled writing career, a crumbling marriage, and a growing fear of leaving his apartment, he began to wonder if there was a better way"--

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