Blind Sight: When Freedom Was Not Enough - Couverture souple

George, Ivy

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798950749018

Editeur : Winter Island Press, 2026

Synopsis

"𝐈 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲."
So muses our storyteller in one of the most quietly poignant memoirs of our moment: a book that examines, with unflinching honesty, the meaning–and costs–of freedom.

Published in 2026, on the 250th anniversary of a nation built by natives and newcomers alike, 𝐵𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡: 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑊𝑎𝑠 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝐸𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ arrives with the force of perfect timing. In an America still arguing about who belongs, this memoir is an ode to the idea that Many indeed make our One, and the One contains Many.

Raised in Madras with an imperfection she kept hidden from the world, Ivy George grew up torn between a fast-modernizing India that prized tradition and a restless inner life that refused to be contained. She fled to the United States, earned a doctorate, and claimed the autonomy she had always wanted. She was free. And freedom, it turned out, was not enough.
The West had its own invisible architecture — an individualism so thoroughgoing it left her stranded, self-reliant in ways that felt less liberated and more lonely and disconnected. What followed was a choice that stunned even Professor George herself.

𝐵𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 moves between rural Kerala and cosmopolitan Madras, between suburban Massachusetts and the interior landscape of a woman who refused to stop asking hard questions. It is a memoir of displacement and discovery, of the colonial residue carried in language and identity, of what it means to navigate cultures–Eastern and Western–that want to lay claim to the female body.

𝐵𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 doesn't just tell one woman's story. It tells ours.

𝐵𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡: 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑊𝑎𝑠 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝐸𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ is the story of the author’s struggle to shape a life, true to herself, between the arranged marriage culture of her native India and the love-marriage culture of the West. The story is gripping, self-revealing, often wrenching, displaying an extraordinary gift on the part of the author for capturing, in vivid detail, an episode, an emotion, a scene. An unforgettable account of living between two cultures – in the words of the author, of “straddling two hemispheres of my curved earthly residency.”
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Ivy George teaches sociology at Gordon College, in Massachusetts. She was trained at the University of Madras, Bryn Mawr, Brandeis and Harvard. She has written two books on child labour, (From Child Labour to Child Work, 1990) and cross-cultural comparisons of romance and marriage (An Uncommon Correspondence - East West Conversations on Friendship, Intimacy and Love, 1998, co-authored with Margaret Masson). She has published articles and contributed book chapters and lectured on a wide variety of crucially important topics including masculinity, feminism, religion, social stratification, and international adoptions. Excerpts from her memoir Blind Sight have been published in The Journal of Expressive Writing (2025), Braided Way (2025) and The Other Side of Hope (2025).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Winter Island Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798950749018
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 354
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