Joyful, Anyway

With luminous clarity and unsentimental grace, Kate Bowler delivers a meditation on the sacred, vivid, heartbreaking absurdity of being alive – ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of Eat, Pray, LoveIf it feels like joy is missing from your life, drop what you’re doing and read this book. Kate Bowler’s wisdom is perfectly timed for our tumultuous times – ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling authorA delight from start to finish, Joyful, Anyway embodies the mix of pleasure and aching that makes us human. A book to take you through life’s aftermaths – KATHERINE MAY, author of WinteringA profoundly wise, hilarious, large-hearted and down-to-earth meditation on the fundamental unsolvability of being human – and how it’s in the very middle of the mess that joy is waiting to be found. I know I’ll be returning to this book again and again – OLIVER BURKEMAN, author of Four Thousand WeeksBowler’s richest and wisest book yet, and if possible, the most charming. Absolutely lovely. It changed me – ANNE LAMOTT, author of Bird by BirdJoyful, Anyway is colourful and layered, unafraid of the occasional gut-punch of raw feeling and vulnerability – much like Kate Bowler herself. She suffers no fools, especially the toxic optimists. With her signature mix of tenderness and ache, Bowler lingers comfortably in the strange terrain where joy and pain don’t alternate, but constantly intertwine * JERRY SEINFELD *

Kate Bowler is the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved), among other books. Her TED talk on the topic has over 9 million views to date. She hosts the popular podcast ‘Everything Happens’ and has previously appeared on NPR, Today, the New York Times, Washington Post and Time. Bowler is an Associate Professor of the History of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband, Toban, and son, Zach.