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🦋 Sangre en el Ojo

Reading some notes from a while back I happened on the name of Lina Meruane, a Chilean author, and a recent book of hers. Sangre en el Ojo is a memoir (fictionalized, I don't know to what extent — what I've been able to find online suggests that Dr. Meruane, who teaches at NYU, does have juvenile diabetes; but this is presented as a work of fiction, so I'm taking the Lina Meruane who is the book's main character as a distinct person from the Lina Meruane who wrote it) of losing her vision from hemorrhage caused by diabetes. The story is set in New York and Santiago de Chile, we meet Lina (a graduate student, if I've understood correctly) in 2001 just as she begins to lose her vision; the first chapters have some mesmerizing descriptions of looking at the bleeding in her eyes.

posted evening of Tuesday, September third, 2013
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Here is an interview with Meruane from earlier this year; and one from 2 years ago. In the latter she says she spent three months of her second year in NYC completely blind, and that the basis for this book is autobiographical.

posted evening of September third, 2013 by Jeremy

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