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Mehta, a longtime New Yorker contributor and exceptional memoirist,
adds yet another captivating volume to his unparalleled Continent
of Exile series, which chronicles his boyhood loss of sight and
efforts to live and to write as much in the manner of the sighted
as possible. In this installment, he recounts his adventure building
a house he never felt he could afford on a small Maine island
he could not navigate on his own. In spite of these obstacles,
Mehta, then in his forties and unmarried, fell in love with the
tiny, wooded, isolated island of Islesboro with its Poetically
and aptly named town, Dark Harbor, and retained renowned architect
Edward Larrabee Barnes to build him a house. As Mehta chronicles
with poignant and often hilarious detail his improbable and oddly
courageous undertaking, he muses over his determination to transcend
his handicap, and parallels the construction of his house with
the evolution of his marriage and realization of the sweet dream
of a safe harbor in which to ride out life's chaos.
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