# No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) - Hardcover

by **Kate Bowler** (Author)

****_NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of _Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved)_ asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn't choose?**  
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**"Kate Bowler is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth."--Glennon Doyle, author of the #_1 New York Times_ bestseller _Untamed_**

It's 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 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 today's "best life now" 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.

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 we're going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in between--and there's no cure for being human.

### Author Biography

**Kate Bowler** is an associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School. She completed her undergraduate degree at Macalester College, received a master's of religion from Yale Divinity School, and a PhD at Duke University. She is the author of _Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel_, the _New York Times_ bestselling memoir _Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved_, and _The Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities_. On her popular podcast, _Everything Happens_, she talks with people about what they have learned in difficult times and why it is so difficult to speak frankly about suffering. She has appeared on the TED stage, NPR, and _Today,_ and her writing has been featured in _The New York Times_, _The Washington Post_, and _Time_. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband, Toban, and son, Zach.

**Number of Pages:** 224

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 7.64 x 5.04 IN

**Publication Date:** September 28, 2021

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