General YA Fiction
VG/A. Sundquist, Josh.
Love and First Sight. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. 281p. 978-0-316-30535-8.
17.99.
William Porter was born
blind, and until recently he went to a school for the blind. Now, at 16-year-old, Will is determined to go
to a mainstream school and be as normal a teenager as possible. His first few days at school don’t go quite
as planned. He finds himself in a few
embarrassing situations: accidentally groping a girl, making another girl cry when
he stares at her a bit too long, sitting on someone’s lap at lunch, and mistakenly
walking into the girls’ restroom. Soon
things start to look up. Will’s one favorite class is journalism, and he teams
up with Cecily (the same girl he made cry) to report on the Van Gogh exhibit at
the museum. Will becomes good friends
with Cecily and the other members of the academic quiz team, despite the
initial misunderstandings. He also becomes
a candidate for experimental surgery that may give him eyesight, allowing him
to see for the first time in his life. Even
with successful surgery, Will has even more hardships ahead of him. He will actually have to learn how to see. This is
Sundquist’s debut young adult novel, and it is highly recommended.
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