About the book
Robert Kurson, author of Shadow Divers, tells the true story of Mike May, who lost his sight at age three and never longed to see. While blind, May set world records in downhill speed skiing, joined the CIA and became an inventor and entrepreneur with a family of his own. In 1999 a chance encounter brought news that a stem cell transplant surgery could restore his vision. The operation carried serious risks, and fewer than twenty people worldwide were known to have gained sight after a lifetime of blindness, each of them facing hard consequences. Kurson follows May's choice and what it shows about vision and the brain.
Morgan Housel described it as a surprising, counterintuitive account of what seeing the world for the first time is like for a man who regains full sight at 46.
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