![]() ![]() But she cannot enjoy a normal life with him, cannot go out in the day, and even making love is uniquely awkward. In many ways he is Anna’s savior, offering her shelter from the light in his home. During periods of relative remission she can venture cautiously out at dawn and dusk, into a world that, from the perspective of her normally cloistered existence, is filled with remarkable beauty.Īnd throughout there is her relationship with Pete. Now, when her symptoms are at their worst, she must spend months on end in a blacked-out room, losing herself in audio books and elaborate word games in an attempt to ward off despair. The reaction soon spread to her entire body. Soon this progressed to an intolerance of fluorescent light, then of sunlight itself. But then she started to develop worrying symptoms: her face felt like it was burning whenever she was in front of the computer. She was ambitious and worked hard she had just bought an apartment she was falling in love. “Something is afoot within me that I do not understand, the breaking of a contract that I thought could not be broken, a slow perverting of my substance.”Īnna was living a normal life. ![]() ![]() ![]() A gorgeous memoir of an unthinkable life: a young woman writes of the sensitivity to light that has forced her to live in darkness, and of the love that has saved her. ![]()
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