Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse
โ Scribed by Burcaw, Shane
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 774 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Henry Holt & Co, 2019.
- ISBN
- 1626727694
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
With his signature acerbic wit and hilarious voice, twenty-something author, blogger, and entrepreneur Shane Burcaw is back with an essay collection about living a full life in a body that many people perceive as a tragedy. From anecdotes about first introductions where people patted him on the head instead of shaking his hand, to stories of passersby mistaking his able-bodied girlfriend for a nurse, Shane tackles awkward situations and assumptions with humor and grace.
On the surface, these essays are about day-to-day life as a wheelchair user with a degenerative disease, but they are actually about family, love, and coming of age.
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