Blind main characters

[shanaqui]

Can anyone recommend me books with blind main (or at least significant) characters? I think I know of one-and-a-half: Stephen Lawhead's Paradise War trilogy has Tegid, and in Ursula Le Guin's Gifts, Orrec is voluntarily and temporarily "blinded". I'd prefer books where the blindness isn't magically hand-waved away: it's real, and it gets in the way, and the protagonist learns to deal with it. I don't mind about being born blind, being blinded by violence or illness, or slowly going blind with age.

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[manifesta]

Hawkspar by Holly Lisle.

She's blind for the vast majority of the book. She (spoiler!) is no longer blind by the end but, as you say, she has to learn to deal with it.

Actually, I will be analyzing it for 3W4D, and it will be one of the books up for grabs in my giveaway.

[shanaqui]

Interesting! I already subscribed to your journal, so I'll be seeing your analysis of that.