Love and First Sight by Josh Sundquist
I decided to read this because I loved his nonfiction work We Should Hang Out Sometime. This book is his first novel, and it is phenomenal!
Will is sixteen, and starting a new high school. And while that is a big deal for anybody, it's an especially big deal for Will because he is blind. Like, has never seen anything so he has no frame of reference for anything when people try to describe things to him.
On his first day, he accidentally gropes a girl on the stairwell, sits on someone and makes a girl cry. The person he sits on actually invites Will to join him and his friends at lunch, so Will makes some friends his first day. The girl he makes cry, may be the girl of his dreams.
So, Will is given this opportunity for an experimental surgery that could give him sight. He chooses to have the surgery, and begins to experience having sight for the first time. He also discovers that he has been mislead by everyone about what the girl of his dreams looks like. Really, looks don't matter, but he is more upset that everyone felt they had to hide it as if looks matter. Will and the girl have a fight, and he wants, though weeks later, to remedy things, she's not at school. Will and his friends end up driving halfway across the country to find her.
Will she accept Will's apology? Will they become an item? Read and find out.
I just want to mention what I really like about this book: it forces you to see things from the perspective of someone who has never seen anything. I might never considered things from the perspective of a blind person, and having read this, I would like to believe I would be more empathetic.
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