The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately “a positive message, a powerful reminder that with great vulnerability also comes great reward” (Oprah Winfrey). In this “moving and inspiring” ( The Washington Post) memoir, Bruni beautifully recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye-forever. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. Bush’s initial presidential campaign, “Ambling Into History.” In the summer of 2021, he became a professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University.From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes “a book about vision loss that becomes testimony to human courage, a moving memoir that offers perspective, comfort, and hope” ( Booklist, starred review). He is the author of four New York Times best sellers: a 2022 reflection on illness, aging and optimism, "The Beauty of Dusk" a 2015 examination of the college admissions frenzy, “Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be” a 2009 memoir, “Born Round,” about the joys and torments of his eating life and a 2002 chronicle of George W.
Bruni came to The Times from The Detroit Free Press, where he was a war correspondent, the chief movie critic and a religion writer.
Abrams and a health-obsessed billionaire who planned to live to 125 as the Rome bureau chief, he kept tabs on Pope John Paul II and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. As a staff writer for The Times Magazine, he profiled J.J. He has been both a White House correspondent and the chief restaurant critic. Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, joined The New York Times in 1995 and has ranged broadly across its pages.
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