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 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 familys love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size speed and agility necessary to guard the quarterbacks greatest vulnerability his blind side
