Bøker av Rod Michalko

Unravels the ways that blind persons come to understand and live their lives. It shows that blindness is a life worth living and that blind persons must grapple with the question of what kind of blind person they choose to be.

When the author's sight finally became so limited that he no longer felt safe on busy city streets or traveling alone, he began a search for a guide. This title is his account of how his search ended with Smokie, a guide dog, and a dramatically different sense of blindness.

Connecting lived experience with social theory, this title shows the consistent exclusion of disabled people from the common understandings of humanity and what constitutes the good life. It offers insight into what suffering a disability means to individuals as well as to the polity as a whole.