num_pages: 224
description:  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? It'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 35 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. She finds that we need one another if we're going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible full of hope and despair and everything in between--and there's no cure for being human.
language: English
title: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
publisher: Random House