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Kate Bowler, a professor at Duke Divinity School, studies the prosperity gospel, the creed that treats good fortune as God's blessing and misfortune as a mark of divine disapproval. At thirty-five she is thriving at work, married to her high school sweetheart and raising a newborn son when a diagnosis of stage IV colon cancer arrives. The illness shows her that she had quietly accepted the idea that determination can control the shape of a life. Her memoir considers what dying means in a culture convinced that every event has a purpose. Friends, relatives, doctors and megachurch preachers fill the account, which is frank, dark and often funny.
Bill Gates put it on his 2018 list of five books worth reading in the summer, calling it a heartbreaking yet surprisingly funny memoir about faith and facing one's own mortality.
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Bill Gates (CEO/Microsoft)
When Bowler, a professor at Duke Divinity School, is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, she sets out to understand why it happened. Is it a test of her character? The result is a heartbreaking, surprisingly funny memoir about faith and coming to grips with your own mortality.
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