Girl in the Dark: A Memoir of a Life Without Light

One woman's unthinkable fate becomes a transcendent love story, offering an extraordinary perspective from which we can see light and the world anew.

“Extraordinarily vivid.... [Lyndsey] has found new ways to look at the world, out of the darkness.” —The Washington Post

Even impossible lives endure.

Once, Anna Lyndsey had an ordinary life. She was young and ambitious and worked hard, she had just bought an apartment, she was falling in love. Then what began as a mild intolerance to certain...