Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself

The magic of the human-guide dog partnership (Yorktown Heights and White Plains, New York, also Missoula, Montana and Tampa, Florida university campuses; 2012 to present-day): Emotionally affecting, Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself is a deeply moving, unique memoir meant for all of us, not only people who are legally blind. You’ll find yourself hooked by this specialized world filled with the respect, kindness, compassion, dedication, sense of purpose, and trust we wish surrounded our daily lives. A world in which certain breeds of dogs, mostly Labs and German Shepherds, are genetically bred and rigorously trained from the time they’re three weeks old to twelve weeks to begin the process of being matched to a person who is legally blind, aimed at developing a partnership that will transform lives. Deni Elliott calls her memoir an “ethics book.” Then stuns us with brutal honesty admitting she felt “like a living example in one of my lectures on deception” since no…