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An irreverent, tragicomic, astoundingly articulate memoir about going blind—and growing up On his eighteenth birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision, and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black comedy, Knighton tells the story of his fifteen-year descent into blindness while incidentally revealing the world of the sighted in all its phenomenal peculiarity.

Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. Foran describes Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend, romantic lover, and devoted husband and father. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2010.

For years, journalist and amateur tailor JJ Lee tried to ignore the navy suit that hung at the back of his closet — his late father's last suit. When he decides to finally make the suit his own, little does he know he is about to embark on a journey into his own past.

A memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution.