No Cure for Being Human: (and Other Truths I Need to Hear) [Paperback] Bowler Kate

A New York Times bestselling author asks a question we're all grappling with in this new world: how to go on living when the life you know changes beyond recognition.Kate's previous book was on the NYT bestseller list for four weeks, has sold nearly 170k copies in the US (3K TCM), and was chosen as a must-read by Bill Gates.Kate gave a TED Talk that has receive more than five million views (https://rb.gy/6svuoa), started a podcast that has 1.5 million downloads, writes op-eds, and is a regular at the Aspen Ideas Conference.Kate is very well connected with people like Bill Gates, Priyanka Jonas, Andrew Solomon, Glennon Doyle, John Green, Angela Duckworth, Adam Grant and Christie Watson, and we can expect their support on publication.Comparison titles include When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (255k TCM; 900k+ copies shipped), The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson (180k TCM; 230k copies shipped), and With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix (45k TCM).

Kate Bowler is the NYT bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason and her TED talk on the topic has over 9 million views to date. She hosts the popular podcast 'Everything Happens' and has previously appeared on NPR, Today, New York Times, Washington Post and Time.

Kate is an Associate Professor of the History of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband, Toban, and son, Zach.

***A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***

The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn't choose?

Hailed by Glennon Doyle as 'the Christian Joan Didion', Kate Bowler used to accept the modern idea that life is an endless horizon of possibilities, a series of choices which if made correctly, would lead us to a place just out of our reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. But then at thirty-five she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, and now she has to ask one of the most fundamental questions of all: How do we create meaning in our lives when the life we hoped for is put on hold indefinitely?

In No Cure for Being Human, Kate searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of our modern 'best life now' advice industry, which offers us exhausting positivity, trying to convince us that we can out-eat, out-learn and out-perform our humanness. With dry wit and unflinching honesty she grapples with her cancer diagnosis, her ambition and her faith and searches for some kind of peace with her limitations in a culture that says that anything is possible.

Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate's irreverent, hard-won observations in No Cure For Being Human chart a bold path towards learning new ways to live.

A clear-eyed, beautifully written account of coming to terms with that fact that "so often the experiences that define us are the ones we didn't pick"'Dry, witty and compassionate; a balm for the prickly soul'A breathtaking, utterly beautiful memoir about what it means to be human. No Cure for Being Human reminds us of all the horrors and beauty of this precious life. Kate Bowler is an incredible writer with something important to tell us. I'll be pressing this book into the hands of everyone I know, and I'll be hugging my kids so hard tonight too.I began reading No Cure for Being Human after dinner one evening and didn't move until I finished the last gorgeous page. As I finally put this masterpiece down, I thought: Kate Bowler is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth. Bowler is a prophet and her new offering is another true gift to the world. This book will open minds and warm hearts.If you want your life changed and your heart expanded - and to laugh - read this amazing, amazing book.