Peter Dunlap-Shohl My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s

About the author:

Reared in Alaska, Peter Dunlap-Shohl worked over a quarter of a century as cartoonist for the Anchorage Daily News. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2002 at the age of 43, he underwent Deep Brain Stimulation, a delicate surgical procedure, in 2009. With much of his motor abilities restored, he wrote and illustrated My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s. Dunlap-Shohl and his wife, Pam, divide their time between Washington state and Alaska.

About the book:

My Degeneration is a book-length autobiographical comic about the author’s struggle to come to terms with a progressive, disabling, and incurable disease. It is hailed by doctors and patients alike as an honest and ultimately hopeful, if harrowing, read.

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