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Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved by Dr Kate Bowler (Hardcover, 2018)

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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 London-born Kate Bowler, a thirty-five year-old professor at the school of divinity at Duke, had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, guzzled antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. As Kate navigates the aftermath of her diagnosis, she pulls the reader into her life and her history - affectionately filled with a colourful retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, parents, and doctors - and shares her irreverent, laser-sharp reflections on faith, friendship, love, and death. She wonders why suffering makes her feel like a loser and explores the burden of positivity. Trying to relish the time she still has with her son and husband, she realizes she must cure her habit of 'skipping to the end' and planning the next move. An historian of the American Prosperity Gospel (the creed of the megachurches that promises believers a cure for tragedy, if they just want it badly enough) Kate finds that she craves these same 'outrageous certainties'. Why is it so hard to surrender when she knows there are no spiritual guarantees? In Everything Happens for Reason we encounter one of the talented, courageous few who - like Paul Kalanithi - can articulate the grief we feel as we contemplate our own mortality.

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Spck Publishing
ISBN-13
9780281079285
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2317729929

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Book Title
Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved
Author
Dr Kate Bowler
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Coping with Illness
Publication Year
2018
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
328g

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Dr Kate Bowler
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved by Dr Kate Bowler (Hardcover, 2018)

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