Not If I See You First
by Eric Lindstrom
Publication Date: December 1, 2015
Publisher: Poppy Books
There are a lot of great books that have the ability to
completely take me out of my everyday life and transport me to another world
entirely. But every so often I'll come across a rare book that gives me a whole
new perspective on my own reality even after I've finished reading it. NOT IF I
SEE YOU FIRST did just that. It is the story of Parker Grant, a girl who loves
to run. Not unlike other high school students, her sport is the one thing she
can count on while she faces a number of other problems. Struggling to maintain
her childhood friendships, figuring out impossibly complicated boys, and making
it through family hardships; all things many people might deal with, yet for
Parker one thing is drastically different --she's blind. Lindstrom does a great job of giving the
reader a true sense of the world Parker is living in, by enabling us to
experience it the way she would; without any sense of sight or visual
descriptions. The power of this book for me lies in the fact that I felt I knew
each and every character in the story so well; all the layers of their
personality and who they truly were. And yet I had never been given a single
physical description of them. I recommend this book for anyone, and I promise
you will take away from it more than just an incredibly moving story, but also
a new way to look at the world and everyone around you.
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