The Braille Encyclopedia
Brief Essays on Altered Sight
- 2024 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Autobiography & Memoir (Adult Nonfiction)
Naomi Cohn’s revelatory memoir "The Braille Encyclopedia" shapeshifts between lyric essay and prose poetry and traverses the divides between lived experience, history, and scientific knowledge. Told in the form of imagined alphabetical encyclopedia entries, this meditation on progressive vision loss examines and illuminates Cohn’s at first halting then avid embrace of braille as part of relearning to read and write as an adult.