![]() ![]() I left Kate's story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping-she's like a Christian Joan Didion. It's inspiring to see this thoughtful woman face such weighty topics with honesty and humor." -Bill Gates "I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Everything Happens belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande's Being Mortal. Above all, though, this is a love letter to life, and it's gorgeous." -Lucy Kalanithi, MD, FACP, clinical assistant professor of medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine " wonderful new memoir. Review Quotes "A meditation on sense-making when there's no sense to be made, on letting go when we can't hold on, and on being unafraid even when we're terrified. And what else is art for?" -Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Rising ![]() Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason "I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with "a surge of determination." Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you "can't do" and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward "blessing." She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. reflections on faith, friendship, love, and death"-īook Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A meditation on sense-making when there's no sense to be made, on letting go when we can't hold on, and on being unafraid even when we're terrified."-Lucy Kalanithi "Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande's Being Mortal."-Bill Gates NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God's disapproval. collection of friends, pastors, parents, and doctors, and shares her. As she navigates the aftermath of her diagnosis, Kate pulls the reader deeply into her life, which is populated with a colorful. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. About the Book "Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach.
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