Field of Purple Bonnets

If you've spent any time in Texas in spring, you know the bluebonnets. Now imagine a pair of glasses that shows you what you had been missing — every ultraviolet the flower had been wearing all along, a field suddenly purple, a world you had been standing inside without seeing.
That is love, for Richard Smith. That is Zin.

Richard has spent his life making himself small. He writes poetry in secret. With Zin, he learns to see. He builds a technology that puts a kind of sight once reserved for ...