Description

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One of the first books to explore the emotional landscape of living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a patient's perspective; a playful story of falling down, getting back up again, and realizing you should have gone to the hospital sooner.

About the Author

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Alyssa Graybeal is a queer writer and cartoonist whose workfocuses on the emotional landscape of living with chronic illness anddisability, in particular the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlossyndrome. Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the Worldis her first memoir and won the 2020 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award. Shehas a BA from McGill University and an MLIS from Dalhousie University, and sheworks as an editor and writing coach. You can find her online at www.alyssagraybeal.com. She lives inAstoria, Oregon.