A savagely witty, warm and profound memoir by a young woman with a
terminal illness, who
contends with the terrifying fact that, even for her beloved
husband and son, she is not the
lynchpin of existence and life will go on.
Kate Bowler is an assistant professor in the school of divinity at Duke University. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, Bowler's first book was BLESSED: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (OUP 2013). She lives in North Carolina with her husband and son.
Kate Bowler's memoir is 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. And it happens to be
hilarious. Above all, though, this is a love letter to life, and
it's gorgeous.
*Lucy Kalanithi, MD, FACP, Clinical Assistant Professor of
Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine*
"I don’t remember why I opened Everything Happens for a Reason, but
once I did, I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is
naked, elegant, and gripping—she’s like a Christian Joan Didion.
Her spirit and perspective are so beautiful that halfway through- I
closed the book, turned to my wife and said: ‘I have to call
someone to find out how this ends. I need to know before I keep
reading if she’s okay.’ I don’t think Kate wrote Everything Happens
for a Reason to save anybody: she was just telling the truth about
her life. Regardless, I left Kate’s story feeling more present,
grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?
Everything Happens for A Reason is art in its highest form—and Kate
Bowler is a true artist—with the pen, and with her life."
*Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 NYT Bestseller Love Warrior and
president of Together Rising*
This is a beautifully-written, intelligent, soulful book. Kate’s
story makes room for anger, for
love, for faith and despair, for prayer and silence . . . necessary
reading for all of us who
long to walk faithfully and honestly through the darkest and most
desolate of seasons.
*Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author of Present Over
Perfect and Bread*
Kate Bowler has stage 4 cancer and she faces it with courage and
questions. Does
everything happen for a reason? Is there a master plan? Kate comes
to the simplest
conclusion of all: "Life is beautiful. Life is hard." Accepting
these two truths side-by-side can
change the way we live . . . A book for all of us who have sought
meaning in catastrophe
and needed a way to live on.
*Abigail Thomas, author of A Three Dog Life*
The Kate you will come to know in this book is 100% real: honest,
brave, holy, ridiculous,
profane, hilarious, human - her fierce and beautiful words will
make you . . . long for
courage to tell the truth about your [own] life.
*Amy K. Butler, Senior Minister, The Riverside Church*
Throughout, the author delivers raw emotion, realistic description,
and candid assessments… An inspiring story of finding faith—in God,
in family, and in oneself—while walking close to the Valley of the
Shadow of Death."
*Kirkus Reviews*
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