No Cure for Being Human- (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler

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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? Kate Bowler is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth. Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller UntamedIt's hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. Everyone wants to believe that they are headed toward good, better, best. But what happens when the life you hoped for is put on hold indefinitely? Kate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices, until she discovered, at age thirty-five, that her body was wracked with cancer. In No Cure for Being Human, she searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of today's best life now advice industry, which insists on exhausting positivity and on trying to convince us that we can out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. We are, she finds, as fragile as the day we were born. With dry wit and unflinching honesty, Kate Bowler grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith as she tries to come to terms with her limitations in a culture that says anything is possible.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range- Adult
    • Format- Paperback
    • Product dimension- 5.1" W x 7.7" H x 0.7" D
    • Genre- Religion/Inspiration
    • Publisher- Random House Publishing Group, Publication date- 10-04-2022
    • Page count- 224
    • ISBN- 9780593230794

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3 years ago
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It Builds to a Crescendo

Upon starting to read this book, I had noticed a lot of overlap from the Kate Bowler's "Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved." It's not a direct copy but an expansions of Bowler's story of her journey of going from having pain for five months to being diagnosed with stage four cancer and to receiving "treatment" through a clinical trial. Along with the explanation, there are sprinkles of spiritual thoughts which explains the following and more: - When is one to live their best life? - Timekeeping according to productivity or is it something more? - Should one make bucket lists or something else? As Bowler uncovers the truth she had learned along her journey, the great crescendo is the chapter entitled "Unfinished Cathedrals." This is where Bowler states "We try to outsmart our limitations and our bad, bad luck, but here we are, shouting the truth into the abyss. There is no cure for being human" (page 188). This she had gathered after beholding the tragedies of others that were vulnerable enough to write out their heart's cry in a public display. Bowler ends her book by sharing how although we are all unfinished but yet are still a masterpiece. Even when we think we are done, we are not yet done. There is still more left to do and discover.

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