![]() ![]() Alice’s road isn’t always an easy one, but her journey will be inspiring to readers, especially those who have struggled with a disability. For Alice, life had been great right up until her family moved from their happy home in Seattle Washington to a small mill town called Sinkville in South Carolina. ![]() Using a lively first-person narrative, Vrabel ( Pack of Dorks) presents a rare glimpse of what it is like to navigate new territory while legally blind. A Blind Guide to Stinkville follows Alice, a 12-year-old girl with albinism, as she tries to make the stinky paper mill town of Sinkville South Carolina feel more like a home. ![]() While researching her topic, “Sinkville Success Stories,” Alice is drawn into the community, making new friends (and an enemy) and learning that the town has more to offer than a bad smell. Alice can go to the library, though, and it is there that she learns about an essay-writing contest. Beth Vrabels characters are complicated and messy, but they come. Alice’s family members are too depressed, busy, and preoccupied to act as her guide, and she can’t rely on her beloved shih tzu to show her around town. Before Stinkville, Alice didnt think albinism-or the blindness that goes with it-was. But she feels lost now that her family has moved from Seattle to Sinkville, S.C., nicknamed Stinkville due to its rotten-egg stench. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a. ![]() Despite a visual impairment caused by albinism, 12-year-old Alice has gotten along fine with help from her mother and her best friend. Beth Vrabel knew she wanted to be a writer after winning a short-story contest in elementary school. ![]()
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