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No cure for being human : (and other truths I need to hear)  Cover Image Book Book

No cure for being human : (and other truths I need to hear) / Kate Bowler.

Bowler, Kate, (author.).

Summary:

"We all know, intellectually, that our time on earth is limited. What would we change if we knew it viscerally? Kate Bowler was thirty-five when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Now that she's responded to immunotherapy Kate has to figure out how to make a new life between CT scans. Before she got sick, she'd accepted the very American idea that life was an endless horizon of possibilities. Now she has to figure out what to do within the limits of the time she has left. In No Cure for Being Human, Kate, hailed by Glennon Doyle as 'the Christian Joan Didion,' looks at the ways she has tried to wring meaning from her remaining time through anecdotes that range from the hilariously absurd--as when she attempts to rid the hospital gift shop of its copies of prosperity gospel guru Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now to the seriously painful. Breaking down time into efficient segments--'gather round and watch how this woman can take a solitary moment and divide it into a million uses!'--trying to live in the moment, weighing the meaning of work, and learning to discover what 'enough' feels like, Kate asks one of the most fundamental questions of all: How do we create meaning in our lives as we race against the clock?"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593230770
  • ISBN: 0593230779
  • Physical Description: xvi, 202 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2021]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Best life now -- Timekeeping -- Pragmatism -- Bucket lists -- YOLO (You Only Live Once) -- Do what you love (and the money will follow) -- Apocalyptic time -- Befores & afters -- Flesh & blood -- Unfinished cathedrals.
Subject: Bowler, Kate > Health.
Colon (Anatomy) > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography.
Cancer > Patients > Family relationships.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Available copies

  • 21 of 26 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Juniata County. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 26 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Easton Main Library 616.99 B787n (Text) 31901004546844 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Guthrie Memorial Library: Hanover's Public Library Adults 616.99 BOW Nonfiction (Text) 34007002452550 Adult Area Available -
Hollidaysburg Area Public Library B BOWLER 2021 (Text) 10HOL000472998 Adult Biography Available -
Hughes Library 616.994 BOW (Text) 32378005083136 Adult New Book Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 616.99 Bowler Health (Text) 39427103606026 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 05/06/2024
Lower Macungie Library 616.994347 BOW (Text) 33400001538670 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Lower Macungie Library 616.994347 BOW (Text) 33400OnOrder584893119592 On Order On Order -
Martin Library Adults Bowler Biography (Text) 33454005815972 2nd Floor Available -
New Oxford Library 616.9943 BOWLER (Text) 35740635773583 Nonfiction Checked Out 05/06/2024
North Wales Area Library 616.99 Bowler (Text) 35410000799726 NWAL Non-Fiction Available -


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