William Melvin Kelley

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Written by By M. Leona Godin, author of There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness   In William Melvin Kelley’s A Drop of Patience, we follow the life of a young Black musician named Ludlow Washington, who is placed in a school for the blind when he is five and remains there until he is