Thursday, May 20, 2021

How Lucky by Will Leitch

Daniel has a degenerative disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy or SMA that has him confined to a wheelchair. He is slowly losing more and more of his abilities. He can't walk, has minimal speech and his ultimate death is just around the corner. He lives alone and has a job working online for a regional airline. 

Daniel is lucky in that he lives alone, has a support system and people who help make it possible for him to live independently. His life isn't exciting or thrilling but that changes when he sees a women get into a car who is reported missing the next day. 

Daniel reaches out to others but no one seems to believe him, so he reaches out to Reddit, thus setting things in motion making that can endanger his life.

The book started off strong and I was intrigued but then .... it feel flat. I can't exactly pinpoint what happened but I found myself skimming pages to get to the resolution. Skimming pages isn't something I do often but I am thankful that I read this book as I knew nothing about SMA and was able to further educate myself on it. 



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