nearsighted

A stray orange cat; a séance in a hostel; a “nearsighted galoot” who decodes cryptic messages from Radio Pyongyang; flashlights that aren’t just flashlights — these bread crumbs guide us to the novel’s denouement.

And when he grew up and he was a stutterer and he was nearsighted and then when he went to Stanford, they called him Urkel.

With a nearsighted squint, he scanned the bazaar.

If the eye grows too long, it becomes myopic or nearsighted.

“The fastest eye growth is actually just before you become nearsighted,” Walline says.