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Things
No Longer There Things No Longer There is a lovingly crafted collection of personal stories
about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing
her eyesight. It is also, more broadly, about invisible landscapes-places
of the heart that linger long after they have disappeared from
the world outside. In these ten brief tales and one novella-length
intimate drama, Susan Krieger takes us on a series of adventures
in vision, a journey both inward and to various parts of the
country. We travel with her as she goes birdwatching before sunrise
in the New Mexico desert, learns to walk with a white cane, revisits
an old love, returns to a summer camp of her youth, and reflects
on the nature of blindness and sight. "Susan Krieger's book illustrates in a personal, reflective, and emotional way how the gradual erosion of interpersonal relationships and familiar environmentsrequires great effort to maintain a sense of inner reality and balance. This book is beautifully written, with vivid, compelling images that stayed with me."—Esther Rothblum, University of Vermont\
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Susan
Krieger, a sociologist and writer,
teaches in the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford University.
Her previous books include The Family Silver: Essays on Relationships
among Women; Social Science and the Self: Personal Essays on
an Art Form; and The Mirror Dance: Identity in a Women's
Community.
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