***A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AND INSTANT 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? Hailed by Glennon Doyle as 'the Christian Joan
Didion' Kate Bowler used to accept the modern idea that life is an endless horizon of
possibilities a series of choices which if made correctly would lead us to a place just out
of our reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on
the horizon. But then at thirty-five she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer and now she
has to ask one of the most fundamental questions of all: How do we create meaning in our lives
when the life we hoped for is put on hold indefinitely? In No Cure for Being Human Kate
searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of our modern 'best life
now' advice industry which offers us exhausting positivity trying to convince us that we can
out-eat out-learn and out-perform our humanness. With dry wit and unflinching honesty she
grapples with her cancer diagnosis her ambition and her faith and searches for some kind of
peace with her limitations in a culture that says that anything is possible. Frank and funny
dark and wise Kate's irreverent hard-won observations in No Cure For Being Human chart a bold
path towards learning new ways to live.
