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.

Comments

[maharetr]

This is Young(er) Adult, but Elaine Forrestal's Someone Like Me is one of those books that I read really fast one afternoon, hit the end and went: 'wait, what?' and reread far more carefully. It might be younger than you're after, but it's really well done.

[shanaqui]

I'll look out for it!