How do you describe an accordion to someone who has never seen one?
More difficult: How to paint a portrait of the fabled instrument, prominent in folk cultures from Mexico to Montenegro and bands from Paris, Texas to the City of Lights – for young people who can’t see at all?
The esteemed Southern writer Flannery O’Connor [1925-1964] said of literature – metaphorically – that “for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.”…