Belo Cipriani's Books
Jun.15.2011
Imagine if the most severe physical pain and sorrow in your life were inflicted by the people you trusted most. In the spring of 2007, Belo Cipriani was beaten and robbed of his sight at the hands of his childhood friends. Blind: A Memoir chronicles the two years immediately following the assault. At the age of twenty-six, Belo found himself learning to walk, cook, and date...
Blind: A Memoir is Cipriani's moving account of his readjustment to life as a gay man in a new, dark city. Written in an almost conversational style, the author shares his hopes of regaining his sight through numerous surgeries. For a while, he still had limited vision. But one day, he was forced to face the truth about what had been done to him. His quiet acceptance of his fate, and his determination to live life to it's fullest, are inspirational.
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—Chicago Windy City Times
About Belo
Belo writes both creative non-fiction and short fiction across several genres with the help of adaptive technology. To read and edit, he uses a desktop application for the blind called JAWS and a talking dictionary device called Franklin. Belo was born in...
Causes Belo Cipriani Supports
Litquake and Blind Babies Foundation
Belo’s Favorite Books
Middlesex, The Time Machine, Frankenstein, Kindred, Good Grief, Confessions of a Casanova, On a Night Like This