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This review contains spoilers.
What to say? I want to recommend Katherine Center to you, but any other title than this. (I really, really liked “Things you Save in a Fire”–start there.) I guess my childhood sense of being overwhelmed by embarrassment when I or others mess up in social situations and get people's names and identities wrong is still part of my psyche. This well of shame meant I couldn't relax into this as a cute romance with a fascinating neurological condition but rather kept tensing for the inevitable errors that face blindness creates. I do appreciate the research Center puts into finding unusual, believable human circumstances that provide welcome twists on familiar tropes in romance and women's fiction. But–I could not finish. I feel too much the second-hand embarrassment! Not something authors think to issue content warnings about, right?!