Journalist Frank Bruni's heartfelt memoir explores his experience of partial sight loss and how it feels to lose control of a body you once believed to be invincible.

Those of us who have sight rely on it so much that it's difficult to imagine how we would cope if we lost it all of a sudden.

When, at the age of 52, Frank Bruni woke up one morning to find the vision in one eye blurry and unfocused, his life changed forever.

Bruni is a writer for the New York Times and a journalism professor at Duke University.

Bruni initially thought that his sight loss was a symptom of the previous night's drinking, but he was soon diagnosed with partial blindness.

The Beauty of Dusk is Bruni's moving and personal exploration of the difficulty of losing his sight.

The author explores the shock of a changing body for someone of the over-confident Baby Boomer generation, the terror that change can spark, and the ways losing his sight changed his life.