{"product_id":"joyful-anyway","title":"Joyful Anyway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A book to take you through life’s aftermaths.”—Katherine May,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWintering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou can’t always be happy, but you can be joyful, anyway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHonest and bracingly tender, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoy isn’t something you can optimize or manufacture—it finds us at the edge of expectation, when life interrupts our scripts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoy reminds us that no matter what, life is still worth loving. For every time we ask \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eis this it?,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e joy will answer: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is more\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"21Five Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51217791221984,"sku":"9780385704199","price":27.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/0024\/7224\/files\/m_c3489994-a7cd-4559-bd6f-033f229b8b58.jpg?v=1774532647","url":"https:\/\/21five.ca\/products\/joyful-anyway","provider":"21Five Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}