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你是我一生的願望

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內容簡介 【比爾蓋茲推薦書單：2018年夏季推薦】★本書真切幽默，不情緒化也不抱怨人生，受《當呼吸化為空氣》作者遺孀等多位名人感動推薦★二月出版後即登亞馬遜總榜第三、紐時暢銷榜第五名，各大媒體紛紛介紹，至今仍高居美國亞馬遜各項分類榜冠軍。你是我一生的願望《EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON》本書真切幽默，不情緒化也不抱怨人生，受《當呼吸化為空氣》作者遺孀等多位名人感動推薦。比爾蓋茲書單推薦：「這是一本既令人心碎，卻又令人愛不釋手的回憶錄。我看完後，還持續關注作者的部落格。」常言「事出必有因」，但對那些幸福卻無端遭逢變故的人來說，這種安慰只會令人憤怒沮喪。與青梅竹馬共組家庭的 35 歲教授凱特．鮑樂選擇成為母親、追求學術研究，不料末期大腸癌卻自行上門。樂觀和信念無法縮小腫瘤，面對病痛之外，還有熱情親友不斷捎來各種網路或坊間偏方想幫忙... 。當身心受到折磨時，對生命保持樂觀有多困難？鮑樂分享罹癌者（討厭與）喜歡的謊言，檢視生命的任性與韌性，並告訴讀者：信仰和正念或許都會辜負你，但把握與心愛的人的相處時間，你絕對不會後悔。鮑樂在人生順遂時，得知罹癌的噩耗，他對過往人生有了反省 :有時候，能夠活在當下就像是一個禮物。如果要我描述我的人生罪惡，我不會只說我沒有停下來聞一聞玫瑰花。我會說我太驕傲，我對生命無動於衷。我疏於珍愛當下的事物，而是一心愛著未來的可能性。 我必須學習活在尋常時光裡～於是，他了解到必須活在當下，珍愛目前他所擁有的，時時刻刻寫下「你是我一生的願望」清單～本書介出自遠流出版《你是我一生的願望》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“Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande's Being Mortal.”—Bill GatesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLEKate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God's disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son.Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with “a surge of determination.” Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you “can't do” and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before.Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live.Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason“I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping—she's like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate's story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Rising"

作者介紹

作者介紹 Kate BowlerKate Bowler is an assistant professor at Duke Divinity School. A graduate of Yale Divinity School and Duke University, Bowler is the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and son.

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