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No cure for being human : (and other truths I need to hear) / Kate Bowler.
Kate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices, only to find that she was stuck in a cancerous body at age 35. 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 tries 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 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.
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- ISBN: 9780593230770 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xvi, 202 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 2021.
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| Subject: | Bowler, Kate, > Health. Cancer > Patients > Family relationships. Colon (Anatomy) > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 616.9943470092 Bowle | 31681010251114 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
When she discovers that she has cancer at the age of 35, the author searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdomâand absurdityâof our modern âbest life nowâ advice industry, learning how to deal with her diagnosis on her own terms. - Baker & Taylor
"We all know, intellectually, that our time on earth is limited. What would we change if we knew it viscerally? Kate Bowler was thirty-five when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Now that she's responded to immunotherapy Kate has to figure out how to make a new life between CT scans. Before she got sick, she'd accepted the very American idea that life was an endless horizon of possibilities. Now she has to figure out what to do within the limits of the time she has left. In No Cure for Being Human, Kate, hailed by Glennon Doyle as "the Christian Joan Didion," looks at the ways she has tried to wring meaning from her remaining time through anecdotes that range from the hilariously absurd--as when she attempts to rid the hospital gift shop of its copies of prosperity gospel guru Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now to the seriously painful. Breaking down time into efficient segments--"gather round and watch how this woman can take a solitary moment and divide it into a million uses!"--trying to live in the moment, weighing the meaning of work, and learning to discover what "enough" feels like, Kate asks one of the most fundamental questions of all: How do we create meaning in our lives as we race against the clock?"-- - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies Iâve Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didnât choose?
âKate Bowler is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth.ââGlennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed
Itâs 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?Â
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 todayâs âbest life nowâ 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.Â
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 weâre going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in betweenâand thereâs no cure for being human.
