Strangers assume my girlfriend is my nurse
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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- ISBN: 9781626727700
- Physical Description 197 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.
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Table of Contents
Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction | p. 1 | |
Chapter 1 | Eighth-Grade Pee Fiasco | p. 6 |
Chapter 2 | Ron | p. 16 |
Chapter 3 | Locked Out | p. 27 |
Chapter 4 | Road Rage and Rag Dolls | p. 35 |
Chapter 5 | Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse | p. 41 |
Chapter 6 | Buffalo | p. 47 |
Chapter 7 | p. 56 | |
Chapter 8 | Laughing at Our Nightmare | p. 64 |
Chapter 9 | Jerika | p. 74 |
Chapter 10 | Beaufort | p. 80 |
Chapter 11 | Rant | p. 88 |
Chapter 12 | Deadly Ducks and Cheese Curds | p. 93 |
Chapter 13 | The Elevator | p. 103 |
Chapter 14 | San Francisco | p. 113 |
Chapter 15 | Hannah and Shane Take Manhattan | p. 122 |
Chapter 16 | Adaptation | p. 134 |
Chapter 17 | Your Complete Guide to Shane's Sex Life | p. 141 |
Chapter 18 | Another Bathroom Story | p. 148 |
Chapter 19 | Coughing | p. 152 |
Chapter 20 | If I Could Walk | p. 158 |
Chapter 21 | Spinraza | p. 160 |
Chapter 22 | StankTour | p. 172 |
Chapter 23 | The Move | p. 191 |