"With luminous clarity and unsentimental grace, Kate Bowler delivers a meditation on the sacred, vivid, heartbreaking absurdity of being alive. Her prose is both razor sharp and tender, avoiding easy answers (which never help us anyway) while extending a spirit of friendship to all who have suffered and who long to carry on. A deeply moving everyday masterpiece. I loved it." --Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author "If it feels like joy is missing from your life, drop what you're doing and read this book. Kate Bowler is a beacon--she radiates light even when the world seems dark. Her wisdom is perfectly timed for our tumultuous times." --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again , and host of the podcast Re:Thinking "Bowler's richest and wisest book yet, and if possible, the most charming.

Absolutely lovely. It changed me." --Anne Lamott "A delight from start to finish, Joyful, Anyway embodies the mix of pleasure and aching that makes us human. A book to take you through life's aftermaths." --Katherine May, New York Times bestselling author of Wintering "A profoundly wise, hilarious, large-hearted and down-to-earth meditation on the fundamental unsolvability of being human--and how it's in the very middle of the mess that joy is waiting to be found. I know I'll be returning to this book again and again." --Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks.