At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber\'s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind.
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..
For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, his blurry peripheral vision would bring the world into focus.
A good memory and pop culture obsessions like Tom Cruise, Prince, and all things 1980s allowed him to steer conversations toward common experiences.
He risked his life every time he crossed a street, doing his best to listen for approaching cars.
In this unfailingly candid yet humorous memoir, Hill discloses the tricks he employed to pass for sighted, from displaying shelves of paperbacks he read on tape to arriving early on first dates so women would have to find him.
When high-school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for C\'s in his classes, he tried to escape the stigma by pretending he could still see.
At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber\'s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind
