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?Kate Bowler
is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth.”—Glennon Doyle author of the #1 New York
Times bestseller UntamedIt’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.
