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From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and this is the Nerdet Book Club.

It's just like a regular book club, except sometimes the author stops by.

Our August selection is Andrew Leland's memoir, The Country of the Blind.

It's about how he navigates his degenerative eye disease,

how blind people have advocated for themselves throughout American history

and the intersectionality of blindness.

It explores a number of really evocative ideas around gaze,

an imagination, and the importance of getting lost.

It also happens to be very funny.

Andrew, welcome to Nerdet.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for having me and for including this book

in the book club was super excited to see that.

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