{"product_id":"joyful-anyway","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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou can't always be happy, but you can be joyful, anyway. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Kate Bowler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53452082184556,"sku":"9780593734193","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/7985\/1884\/files\/9780593734193-us.jpg?v=1775052964","url":"https:\/\/commercestreetbooks.com\/products\/joyful-anyway","provider":"Commerce Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}