They say that when you go blind your other senses become magnified. In Lina Meruane's Seeing Red it is not the senses, but the emotions of the protagonist that become magnified. Lina –yes that is her name – is a writer who suffers from an unusual disorder in her eyes that lead to a bleeding that hollows her mind and her everyday life. This story is based on the author's own sight issues which makes Seeing Red a piece of auto fiction, but to be honest, I prefer to call it a decided attempt of writing while blind. Oddly as it sounds it is precisely this blindness, of both the author and the protagonist, what makes Seeing Red such a vivid tale