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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
Blind Passion: A True Story of Magnificent Love by Vincent I. Perry is a non-fiction biography that surrounds the origin story of a married couple named Dorothy and Grant in 1960s and 1970s Illinois. The title comes from the fact that Grant is a blind man, having lost his vision in the early 60s. The last major event he watched on the news was the assassination of President Kennedy. Dorothy was unhappily married with children and her meeting Grant, a college student significantly younger than her, began the couple's lifelong love affair. The book covers a great deal of backstory and the meeting of Dorothy and Grant, then moves on to the evolution of their relationship from kinship to sexual exploration to love and, ultimately, to a marriage of their own.
As far as marriage success stories go outside the genre of fiction, the true account of Dorothy and Grant in Blind Passion is evidence that love and happiness pay very little attention to age and the social construct of being differently abled. Vincent I. Perry has taken what Dorothy wrote and Grant remembered and created a tangible testament of the time spent together. The writing of the novel is good and while the pacing is on the slower side, it isn't distracting. A great deal of the sexual aspects of their relationship are described in intricate detail, but much of the language used is rather perfunctory and frequently uses anatomical terms. I could see readers “of a certain age” enjoying this book either to imagine another way of living or to tap back into a different time. At its heart, this is a love story and I believe a tale of true love is something the world desperately needs right now.
