However wondrously articulate, it is heavy with obsessive worries and sad memories and research-based disquisitions on three scientists whose work revealed previously hidden aspects of human beings: Wilhelm Röntgen, the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of X-rays John Hunter, an 18th century surgeon and anatomist and Sigmund Freud, whose analysis of his daughter, Anna, helped plumb the unconscious. I had to double-check that Sight is a novel, because it reads so much like a memoir. Yet as much as I admire Greengrass' mental and verbal felicity, I also understand that her book is unlikely to appeal to readers looking for entertaining, character-driven plots. Observations like this: "The price of sight is wonder's diminishment." A definition of love as an "encumbrance of minutiae" which both anchors and defines you. Here's why: Shimmering sentences and long paragraphs that unspool like yellow brick roads, winding toward emerald cities of elusive, hard-to-express insights. Jessie Greengrass' Sight is one of those books that critics rave about, yet many readers wonder why. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sight Author Jessie Greengrass
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