Are there people you do not see? Are you paying attention to the way the world smells, feels and sounds? That's a dad's perspective on the book here is a daughter's: This book was more interesting than other books because it was a bit like a puzzle. In those, the main character (described by my reviewing partner below) talks about how sighted people seem to be the ones who are visually impaired because they do not truly see what and who are around them. I was particularly moved by a few passages that inspired the title. Most impressively, like a magician, he performs this and other deeds without drawing attention to them. For example, although he is a sighted person himself, he takes on the perspective of not being able to see and instead describes the world through the other senses. Marcus Sedgwick, author of She is Not Invisible, performs several incredible feats of writing. What would it be like? How would a writer describe the world from the perspective of a person with a visual impairment? How often do the books you read have descriptions of the smell, feel, and sound of things? If you can see and have normal vision then imagine if you did not or were even born blind. I would bet in most cases that the writer notes how things would look if you could be there and see what the writer describes. How do writers describe the world in the books that you read? Take a look at a book you are reading, or have read recently and find a description of a person, place or thing.
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