Chasing Kites

Sharan was nine when doctors diagnosed him with Becker Muscular Dystrophy, and the condition has shaped everything that followed. Chasing Kites by Farah Libardee follows him from that early diagnosis into adulthood, a life that includes the grinding routines of illness: being turned through the night to prevent bedsores, tangles of tubes to be cleaned, difficult wound dressings, and medicine dripping steadily into his veins. The book is not told by Sharan alone. His own voice sits alongside those of other people who have been important on his journey, so the story is seen from several sides at once. Through these accounts, the book looks at how a disability reaches beyond one person, changing family dynamics, shaping questions of identity, and testing the human spirit. At its heart, this is a portrait of resilience and change. Sharan learns to push past his physical limitations and to meet life with courage and creativity, and the book follows his pursuit of freedom, a search that gives the title its meaning.