Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore #1)

Gifts is the first book in Ursula Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore series.

But these are not necessarily gift you would like to receive. The Uplanders are farmers in a fairly unpopulated land. Some have wonderful or useful abilities like summoning animals or bringing forth fire. Others have gifts that only destroy - the ability to inflict illness or chain a mind. The Uplanders live in fear that their neighboring families will unleash these "gifts" against each other.

But even worse for Orrec, he has a wild gift. He has the power to undo - to destroy. But he cannot control it. In an effort to spare the people he loves potential harm he binds his eyes. His friend Gry will help him find his way through the darkness.

Will a blindfold be enough to harness the power to destroy? Or will the wild gift control young Orrec even in the darkness?

Le Guin, Ursula K. (2006). Gifts. New York: Harcourt Inc.