From the Corner Of His Eye: Dean Koontz

Bartholomew Lampion is blinded at the age of three, when surgeons reluctantly remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but although eyeless, Barty regains his sight when he is thirteen. The sudden ascent from a decade of darkness into the light has nothing to do with a holy healer, nor do celestial trumpets announce the miracle. A roller coaster has something to do with it, as does a seagull. Barty's profound desire is to make his mother proud of him before she dies. The first time she dies was the day Barty was born: January 6, 1965....