The Truth About “No Cure for Being Human”

When I picked up “No Cure for Being Human” I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. I just knew that I felt I intimately knew the author, Kate Bowler, from reading her previous book “ Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved.” I have to admit I also looked up her podcast and checked to make sure she is okay. Something about reading her work made me feel like she is a friend that I need to have around. Maybe it’s her honesty. Kate Bowler is willing to say the things many people are probably thinking. Even though I often do not agree with what she says, I find it refreshing that she says them. Does that make sense?

This book was a self-help book that put a critical eye on the self-help industry. I found it both beautiful and terrible at times, just like life.

Plot

As another Memoir style book of Kate Bowler’s life, the plot follows her experience of living with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis. However, this book was written a few years after the original shock of the diagnosis and offers a little bit more distance between the initial blow and where the author is now.