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The bestselling Canadian author and Duke University professor discovers the true magic of joy: it appears when we least expect it-and even if we don't feel happy, we can be joyful, anyway.
Joy won't cure you, but it will carry you.
After surviving a stage-four cancer diagnosis, Kate Bowler knew she was supposed to be grateful. Alive. Blessed. But she still ached-for more connection, more surprise, less resentment on an ordinary day.
So she went looking for joy. Not the toxic positivity kind. Not a 5-step plan. But the type that sneaks in unexpectedly, seemingly out of nowhere. A lemur sunbathing. A belly laugh at a funeral. A dive into the Atlantic with a shark wrangler.
In Joyful, Anyway, Bowler takes us on a hilarious and tender journey through big questions and small delights. With wry wit and deep honesty, she explores how joy can surprise us even in the middle of pain, boredom, and longing.
This is not a book about fixing your life. It is about how we can all find more-feel more-by making room for small extraordinary moments.
For anyone who has ever felt stuck, who is achy for meaning, who feels undone by loss, who feels that joy is just out of reach, who wants, simply, to have more fun, Joyful Anyway is a delicious, insightful tour through the questions that sit in the deepest part of our souls. It proves that for every time we ask: Is this it? Joy will answer: there is more. KATE BOWLER is the four-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, No Cure for Being Human, Good Enough, The Lives We Actually Have, Blessed and The Preacher's Wife, and hosts the popular podcast Everything Happens. She is a professor of history at Duke University and shuttles home to Winnipeg for the summer with her husband and son. New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Joy won't cure you, but it will carry you.
After surviving a stage-four cancer diagnosis, Kate Bowler knew she was supposed to be grateful. Alive. Blessed. But she still ached-for more connection, more surprise, less resentment on an ordinary day.
So she went looking for joy. Not the toxic positivity kind. Not a 5-step plan. But the type that sneaks in unexpectedly, seemingly out of nowhere. A lemur sunbathing. A belly laugh at a funeral. A dive into the Atlantic with a shark wrangler.
In Joyful, Anyway, Bowler takes us on a hilarious and tender journey through big questions and small delights. With wry wit and deep honesty, she explores how joy can surprise us even in the middle of pain, boredom, and longing.
This is not a book about fixing your life. It is about how we can all find more-feel more-by making room for small extraordinary moments.
For anyone who has ever felt stuck, who is achy for meaning, who feels undone by loss, who feels that joy is just out of reach, who wants, simply, to have more fun, Joyful Anyway is a delicious, insightful tour through the questions that sit in the deepest part of our souls. It proves that for every time we ask: Is this it? Joy will answer: there is more. KATE BOWLER is the four-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, No Cure for Being Human, Good Enough, The Lives We Actually Have, Blessed and The Preacher's Wife, and hosts the popular podcast Everything Happens. She is a professor of history at Duke University and shuttles home to Winnipeg for the summer with her husband and son. New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved