{"product_id":"book-bc8s","title":"What Is Visible","description":"\u003cb\u003eA vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins Institute in Boston to determine if a child so terribly afflicted could be taught. At age twelve, Charles Dickens declared her his prime interest for visiting America. And by age twenty, she was considered the nineteenth century's second most famous woman, having mastered language and charmed the world with her brilliance. Not since \u003ci\u003eThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e has a book proven so profoundly moving in illuminating the challenges of living in a completely unique inner world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith Laura—by turns mischievous, temperamental, and witty—as the book's primary narrator, the fascinating kaleidoscope of characters includes the founder of Perkins Institute, Samuel Gridley Howe, with whom she was in love; his wife, the glamorous Julia Ward Howe, a renowned writer, abolitionist, and suffragist; Laura's beloved teacher, who married a missionary and died insane from syphilis; an Irish orphan with whom Laura had a tumultuous affair; Annie Sullivan; and even the young Helen Keller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply enthralling and rich with lyricism, \u003ci\u003eWhat is Visible\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the breathtaking experiment that Laura Bridgman embodied and its links to the great social, philosophical, theological, and educational changes rocking Victorian America. Given Laura's worldwide fame in the nineteenth century, it is astonishing that she has been virtually erased from history. \u003ci\u003eWhat is Visible\u003c\/i\u003e will set the record straight.","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49349759271216,"sku":"BDbc8s","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/528345-bc8s-Square.jpg?v=1734263272","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bc8s","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}