{"product_id":"everything-happens-for-a-reason-and-other-lies-ive-loved-hardcover","title":"Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate Bowler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - \"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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi's \u003ci\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air\u003c\/i\u003e and Atul Gawande's \u003ci\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--Bill Gates \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eREAL SIMPLE\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eEverything Happens for a Reason\u003c\/i\u003e tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eEverything Happens for a Reason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping--she's like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate's story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?\"\u003cb\u003e--Glennon Doyle, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLove Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e and president of \u003ci\u003eTogether Rising\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Bowler\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor at Duke Divinity School. A graduate of Yale Divinity School and Duke University, Bowler is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52030422712621,"sku":"9780399592065","price":27.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/YjZUcDVEOE9WK0VHYjllbjhhdWZDZz09.webp?v=1777520882","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/everything-happens-for-a-reason-and-other-lies-ive-loved-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}