Everything Happens for a Reason

New York Times bestseller. "A meditation on sense-making when there's no sense to be made, on letting go when we can't hold on, and on being unafraid even when we're terrified." --Lucy Kalanithi Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke and, after years of trying, had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. As she navigates the aftermath of her diagnosis, Kate pulls the reader deeply into her life, which she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, parents, and doctors, and shares her irreverant, laser-sharp reflections on faith, friendship, love, and death. She wonders why suffering makes her feel like a loser and explores the burden of positivity. Trying to relish the time she still has