Description 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.
He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his girlfriend..
He is the author of Laughing at My Nightmare and the picture book Not So Different.
He runs a blog about his experiences and is the founder of a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing adaptive technology to people living with muscular dystrophy.
About the Author Shane Burcaw has Spinal Muscular Atrophy and a wicked sense of humor.
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.
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.
Description 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