The Seeing Glass
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ISBN: 1573220612 / Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover, June 1997
When the author begins to lose her sight, she seeks refuge in her family's past and looks for the meaning in the painful story of her brother Robin, diagnosed with autism as a toddler and committed to a hospital for the mentally ill
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The author explain how she became blind due to a rare optic condition and isolated herself from others, reflecting on her life, her family, and, in particular, her autistic brother, who had been forcibly separated from the family and sent to live in a mental institution as a child.
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