by Kate Bowler
First published 2019
Kate Bowler, a young professor at Duke Divinity School, is living the dream. She's married to a rising-star pastor and has a beautiful baby boy. But when she's diagnosed with stage IV cancer, her world is turned upside down. As she undergoes grueling treatment, Kate must confront her own mortality and the limits of her faith. Forced to reexamine her beliefs, she discovers unexpected grace in the midst of her darkest days.
Genres: contemporary, memoir, biography-memoir, 21st-century, academic, christian-living
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: personal-development, reexamination-of-beliefs
Setting: Duke Divinity School
Period: 21st-century
365 pages · Kindle Edition · Princeton University Press
Content warnings: medical-trauma, terminal-illness