FLY AWAY BOY by Jane De Suza

 

Approach Jane De Suza’s Fly Away Boy with caution. It is not written in the usual format of a novel.

Following an unfamiliar and unique storyline, this story involving discovery, suspense and police investigation is about a person with a super imagination who has to run away to be understood.

 

The book revolves around a Happy family – Father, mother, Kavni, the elder sister in the senior class, and of course, the hero younger brother Kabir.

After an incident in school, Kabir disappears for 4 days. This small, cool, sleepy mountain town is electrified with even the police getting involved. And when, in desperation, there is a meeting of citizens in the town hall, in one astounding moment the whole puzzle is solved.

 

This story is about us quickly putting people into boxes and expecting them to conform.

 

The most telling is Kabir Ma's box. And I quote "it was bursting at the seams, it had recipes and gardening tips and office mails to reply to and motherly things to do. All over the box were labels that said "Busy" in Black marker ink. And yet it hid what she really was......an artist.

 

Kavni's box was labelled "Perfect", "Topper", but by the time she is in the tenth standard, it needed to add "no fun anymore".

So in the midst of the investigations, Papa stands up and says "Kabir is a child who follows his imagination. I wish more of us were like him. Not for him the rules that keep us safe in our cocoons, unwilling to move out of what has been pre-decided for us."

     There are many of us who are also waiting to allow a Kabir in us to come out. 

     Thank you Jane for lighting the path.

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