{"product_id":"joyful-anyway-kate-bowler-184532","title":"Joyful, Anyway | Kate Bowler","description":"\u003cb\u003eINSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n  \u003cp\u003e\r\n    \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou can't always be happy, but you can be joyful, anyway.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n  \u003cp\u003e\r\n    We 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.\r\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n  \u003cp\u003e\r\n    Honest and bracingly tender, \u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e proves that experiencing joy does not depend on everything getting better. Drawing on a decade of living with serious illness and a lifetime studying North America’s obsession with progress, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler shows why people so busy chasing happiness miss out on actual joy.\r\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n  \u003cp\u003e\r\n    Joy isn’t something you can optimize or manufacture; it finds us at the edge of expectation, where life interrupts our scripts. \u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e gives us language for the ache we all carry and practices for putting ourselves “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.\r\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n  \u003cp\u003e\r\n    Joy reminds us that, no matter what, life is still worth loving. For every time we ask Is this it?, joy will answer: There is more.\r\n  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46954506584239,"sku":"184532","price":27.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0903\/2258\/files\/8_2adc68bf-e3ff-432d-a032-b95b85c4ec88.png?v=1779470758","url":"https:\/\/shoppineridgehollow.com\/products\/joyful-anyway-kate-bowler-184532","provider":"Shop Pineridge Hollow","version":"1.0","type":"link"}