The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found
by Frank Bruni
Hardcover
From the publisher's website:
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, too. He could lose his sight
altogether.
In The Beauty of Dusk, Bruni hauntingly
recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and
spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities
but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends
and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and
afflictions.
The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately
uplifting examination of the limits that all of us inevitably encounter,
the lenses through which we choose to evaluate them and the tools we
have for perseverance. Bruni’s world blurred in one sense, as he
experienced his first real inklings that the day isn’t forever and that
light inexorably fades, but sharpened in another. Confronting unexpected
hardship, he felt more blessed than ever before. There was vision lost.
There was also vision found.
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