Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Readers will find it hard to put down this wild ride around their everyday world with a wicked, smart, blind guide at the wheel. Read reviews and buy Cockeyed - by Ryan Knighton (Paperback) at Target. Community & Culture Out of Print-Limited Availability. Knighton is powerful and irreverent in words and thought and impatient with the preciousness we've come to expect from books on disability. Cockeyed is not a conventional confessional.

His experience of blindness offers unexpected insights into sight and the other senses, culture, identity, language, our fears and fantasies. Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, into couch-shopping at Ikea, into adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a blind man, his writerly self uses his disability to provide a window onto the human condition. Knighton learns to drive while unseeing has his first significant relationship - with a deaf woman navigates the punk rock scene and men's washrooms learns to use a cane and tries to pass for seeing while teaching English to children in Korea. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black comedy, Knighton tells the story of his fifteen-year descent into blindness while incidentally revealing the world of the sighted in all its phenomenal peculiarity. On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness.

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