{"product_id":"joyful-anyway-isbn-9780593734193","title":"Joyful, Anyway","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler offers a profound, funny, and deeply human case for joy that doesn’t depend on everything getting better.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway \u003c\/i\u003eis colorful 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.”—Jerry Seinfeld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A book to take you through life’s aftermaths.”—Katherine May, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWintering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou can’t always be happy, but you can be joyful, anyway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWe live in a culture convinced that chasing happiness will optimize our bodies, our minds, our relationships, our lives. But in the meantime, bad news usually stays bad: illness, chronic pain, grief, and disappointment don’t obey our timelines or vision boards. We are left wondering why, if we’re doing everything right, life still feels so hard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonest and bracingly tender, \u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway \u003c\/i\u003eproves that experiencing joy does not depend on resolving everything that makes life difficult. Drawing on a decade of living with serious illness and a lifetime studying America’s obsession with progress, Kate Bowler shows why people so busy chasing happiness miss out on actual joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoy isn’t something you can optimize or manufacture—it finds us at the edge of expectation, when life interrupts our scripts. \u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e gives language for the ache we all carry and practices for “putting yourself in the way of joy”: loosening control, introducing novelty, choosing charity, and staying open to the surprising, technicolor moments that pull us back into life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoy reminds us that no matter what, life is still worth loving. For every time we ask \u003ci\u003eis this it?,\u003c\/i\u003e joy will answer: \u003ci\u003eThere is more\u003c\/i\u003e.“With luminous clarity and unsentimental grace, Kate Bowler delivers a meditation on the sacred, vivid, heartbreaking absurdity of being alive. Her prose is both razor sharp and tender, avoiding easy answers (which never help us anyway) while extending a spirit of friendship to all who have suffered and who long to carry on. A deeply moving everyday masterpiece. I loved it.”\u003cb\u003e—Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If it feels like joy is missing from your life, drop what you’re doing and read this book. Kate Bowler is a beacon—she radiates light even when the world seems dark. Her wisdom is perfectly timed for our tumultuous times.”\u003cb\u003e—Adam Grant, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Hidden Potential\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThink Again\u003c\/i\u003e, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bowler’s richest and wisest book yet, and if possible, the most charming. Absolutely lovely. It changed me.”\u003cb\u003e—Anne Lamott, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSomehow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A delight from start to finish, \u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e embodies the mix of pleasure and aching that makes us human. A book to take you through life's aftermaths.”\u003cb\u003e—Katherine May, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWintering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A 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.”\u003cb\u003e—Oliver Burkeman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFour Thousand Weeks\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e is colorful 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.”\u003cb\u003e—Jerry Seinfeld\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Bowler \u003c\/b\u003eis the three-time \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEverything Happens for a Reason, No Cure for Being Human, Good Enough, The Lives We Actually Have, Blessed,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Preacher's Wife,\u003c\/i\u003e and hosts the popular podcast \u003ci\u003eEverything Happens\u003c\/i\u003e. 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