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The Country of the Blind

Nuanced and emotional, The Country of the Blind explores difficult conversations around disability with care and empathy.

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Review of ‘The Country of the Blind’

In The Country of the Blind (8 hours), Andrew Leland explores the culture, politics and history around blindness—a topic that is especially important to him because he is slowly losing his eyesight to retinitis pigmentosa. Leland takes listeners on a wide-ranging examination of blindness: both how it’s treated and how those who have it experience…

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