The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

The #1 New York Times Bestseller

"Lewis has such a gift for storytelling€¦he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons." €•Janet Maslin, New York Times

When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family€s love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback€s greatest vulnerability, his blind side.