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SUMMARY:Author Event: James Tate Hill - Blind Man's Bluff
DESCRIPTION:We're proud to host James Tate Hill and Matthew Armstrong for a reading and book signing of Hill's new book\, a humorous and often heartbreaking tale of losing his sight and how he hid it from the world.\n\nAt age sixteen\, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy\, a condition that left him legally blind. 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.\n\nIn 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. He risked his life every time he crossed a street\, doing his best to listen for approaching cars.\n\nFor 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. 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.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>We&#39\;re proud to host James Tate Hill and Matthew Armstrong for a reading and book signing of Hill&#39\;s new book\, a humorous and often heartbreaking tale of losing his sight&mdash\;and how he hid it from the world.</p>\n\n<p>At age sixteen\, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber&rsquo\;s hereditary optic neuropathy\, a condition that left him legally blind. When high-school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for C&rsquo\;s in his classes\, he tried to escape the stigma by pretending he could still see.</p>\n\n<p>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. He risked his life every time he crossed a street\, doing his best to listen for approaching cars.</p>\n\n<p>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. 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.</p>\n
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