Things No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision
Things No Longer There is a lovingly crafted collection of personal stories about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight. It is also, more broadly, about invisible landscapes—places of the heart that linger long after they have disappeared from the world outside. In these ten brief tales and one novella-length intimate drama, Susan Krieger takes us on a series of adventures in vision, a journey both inward and to various parts of the...
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Krieger (feminist studies, Stanford U.) follows in the long tradition of writing a memoir while going blind for the edification of those who are not. As she gives a detailed description of her symptoms and how they relate to her division of the world into the "outer" and the "inner," she finds that those people and places in the "outer world" to whom she has returned for one last look have for some reason changed in spite of her need for them to remain the way she remembered them long ago. Like many who will remain intensely visual throughout the progression of blindness, Krieger adopts the long-standing notion that blindness imposes a special "inner vision" that will enlighten her for the rest of her life. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1Things no longer there92The vision fire163Saving a tree284Half Moon Bay365Lesbian invisibility496I see her in my mind647Lesbophobia788Losing my vision939Birdwatching before sunrise10210Blindspots12211The lesbian-straight divide141
