Seventeen-year-old Tricia FarniтАЩs body floated to the surface of AlaskaтАЩs Birch River six months after the night she disappeared. The night Roz Hart had a fight with her. The night Roz canтАЩt remember. Roz, who struggles with macular degeneration, is used to assembling fragments to make sense of the world around her. But this time itтАЩs her memory that needs piecing togetherтАФto clear her name . . . to find a murderer. This unflinchingly emotional novel is written in the powerful first-person voice of a legally blind teen who just wants to be like everyone else.
Laura Ellen was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. Legally blind, Laura drew upon her own life in her portrayal of Roz in her novel, Blind Spot.