About this Event
Presented exclusively at the Earl and Rhonda Wynn Theater at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC. One ticket provides a hardcover copy of The Beauty of Dusk and 1-2 seats per customer. We will contact you after processing your order to confirm the name(s) and number of your party. You will collect your book at the event. A signing line will occur immediately following the talk. Masks are required during this event.
One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye—forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. He could lose his sight altogether.
In The Beauty of Dusk, Bruni hauntingly 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.
The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately uplifting examination of the limits that all of us inevitably encounter, the lenses through which we choose to evaluate them and the tools we have for perseverance. Bruni’s world blurred in one sense, as he experienced his first real inklings that the day isn’t forever and that light inexorably fades, but sharpened in another. Confronting unexpected hardship, he felt more blessed than ever before. There was vision lost. There was also vision found.
Please contact Flyleaf Books at [email protected] with any questions. We can’t wait to see you there!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The ArtsCenter, 300-G East Main Street, Carrboro, United States
USD 31.00