![]() I wrote Emma Sasha Silver’s story so I could try to feel my way through someone else’s experience, my favorite part of both reading and writing. What if listening and feeling became our ways of seeing? How would the way we make meaning of the world change? We would read with our fingers and voices, hear books, each other, and everything around us in an utterly transformed way. I was interested in the question of what language might look, feel, and sound like if I, or one of my little girls, lost our vision. ![]() Would my memories stay visual? Would my senses cross so that I could taste, smell and hear colors? Would I see by hearing? How would I read? The more we touched those pages, the more I wondered what it would be like to be able to see and then lose that ability. I was both terrified and inspired by that shiny, embossed wonder, full of images you can feel rather than see. I began to imagine and write the novel BLIND when my two little girls and I read a children’s book called The Black Book of Colors every night for a year. ![]() ![]() Submitted by Kristen Luby on September 29, 2014 ![]()
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