How Lucky

by Will Leitch

How Lucky by Will Leitch is a mystery told in the voice of a young man with spinal muscular atrophy or SMA, who is confined to a wheelchair and heavily dependent on others to stay alive. It’s very touching and life-affirming and it was not a surprise, at the end of the book, to find out that the author was inspired to write it from knowing a young boy suffering from the genetic condition.