Interabled
True Stories About Love and Disability from Squirmy & Grubs and Other Interabled Couples

Name: Interabled
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Shane Burcaw
ISBN: 9781250366023

Author: Shane Burcaw, Hannah Burcaw

Narrator: GM Hakim, Hannah Burcaw, Mieko Gavia, Shane Burcaw, Si Chen

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Young Listeners

Published: 01/14/2025

Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction, Social Topics, Dating & Sex, Disabilities, Emotions & Feelings

Synopsis

This program is read by the authors and a full cast.

YouTube sensations Shane and Hannah Burcaw are back with a groundbreaking, uproarious collection of essays and short stories about what it means to be in an interabled relationship.

With their signature wit and hilarious voice, authors, bloggers, and entrepreneurs Shane and Hannah Burcaw share a true story collection of sweet and unforgettable love stories about interabled couples.

Follow the lives of several couples as they navigate their love story in an ableist world. Sometimes tear-jerking, sometimes funny, and always heartwarming, this moving collection comprised of interviews and short stories - with interludes from Shane and Hannah about their own dating and marriage journey - will have readers laughing and sobbing as they discover true stories of love and commitment.

A Macmillan Audio production from Roaring Brook Press.

About Shane Burcaw

Shane Burcaw is a twenty-something young adult with Spinal Muscular Atrophy and a wicked sense of humor. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he runs a blog and nonprofit organization dedicated to providing medical equipment to people with muscular dystrophy diseases. He and his girlfriend are the duo behind Squirmy and Grubs, a YouTube channel that offers a behind the scenes look at their interabled relationship.

About Si Chen

SiChen is a queer Chinese American actor who is passionate about stories that show the beauty and complexity of the immigrant, queer, femme, Asian experience. She is a classically trained violinist and violist, native Mandarin speaker, and has an extensive science background ranging from genetics to robotics to AI. As a narrator, their voice has been described as soothing, intimate, and witty.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on November 21, 2024

This was so good! Interabled is a collection of stories from couples where one or more of them is disabled. It's funny, insightful, sweet, and a book I hope will be read widely. The authors are YouTubers Squirmy & Grubs, and they intersperse their own stories with those of a bunch of other couples.......more

Goodreads review by Calli on February 11, 2025

This book was incredibly healing for me. As someone with a progressive disease, I often worry what other people think of me. I get the burden complex. And I fear about future relationships. But this book helped me see the many interabled couples out there who have found love, friendship, and comfort......more

Goodreads review by lily ✿ on March 10, 2025

would it be dramatic to say that this book made me believe in love again and no, i’m not saying this in an ableist “it’s sooo romantic for a nondisabled person to take care of their disabled partner! what a hero!” kind of way. i’ve seen a few other reviews saying that they didn’t feel engaged in the......more

Goodreads review by Chloe on February 04, 2025

I’m a fan of their YouTube channel so I feel a bit guilty giving this 2 stars…but note I’m a hard grader. My honest feedback is that I think they expected most people to listen to the book (like I did) but I just found the voice actors to be super cringe (aka the chapters based on other couples.) I......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on April 07, 2025

2.5 ⭐️ I listened to the audiobook. I like Hannah and Shane so I follow them on YouTube and watch their videos semi-frequently. I liked the stories about them, a lot of which I had heard before. They have a cute sense of humor. The stories about the other couples were, to me, less engaging and inter......more

Quotes

"Transparent and genuine....A sophisticated and necessary compilation that sheds light on the normalcy of interabled romance." -- Publishers Weekly

"A welcoming and inclusive celebration of love." -- Kirkus