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Going Blind
Mara Faulkner grew up in a family shaped by Irish ancestry, a close-to-the-bone existence in rural North Dakota, and the secret of her father's blindness--along with the silence and shame surrounding it. Dennis Faulkner had retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease that gradually blinded him and one that may blind many members of his family, including the author. Moving and ...more
Hardcover, 227 pages
Published
July 9th 2009
by Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
(first published 2009)
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Author Mara Faulkner rachets up the memoir by asking and then investigating all her Why? questions: why did her dad seem bigoted toward the English? Why was he kind to blacks? Why were the Native Americans in her town skittish around whites? What did his blindness do for and against him in the discrimination department? Her scholarship is excellent, her conculsions forthright and evenhanded, her evaluation of her father, and of herself, are not sentimental, but deep.Well done.
A short deep book about Faulkner's memories of her father's blindness and growing up on a farm in North Dakota. Riffing on the many definitions and metaphors of blindness as springboards for her experiences and insights, Faulkner also writes about the immigrant legacy of the Irish famine, the ruin of native Mandan land and culture as a result of the Garrison dam, the history of German-Russians in the Dakotas (Lawrence Welk was one) and the state of the blind in the world today -- 50-70% are un...more
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