No Cure for Being Human: (and Other Truths I Need to Hear)

The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies Ive Loved) asks: how do you move forward with a life you didnt choose?Its 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 thirtyfive, 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 todays best life now advice industry, which insists on exhausting positivity and on trying to convince us that we can outeat, outlearn, and outperform 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 were going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in betweenand theres no cure for being human.