Everything Happens For A Reason: And Other Lies... -

A central message is that life is simultaneously "so beautiful and so hard". Joy and sorrow can coexist without one needing to solve the other.

The book explores the reality that we are all terminal and that our lives are not "problems to be solved". Chapter-by-Chapter Overview Book Club: Everything Happens for a Reason, Chapter One Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies...

Bowler argues this phrase is often a "lie" used to make observers feel safe, implying that tragedy can be explained away. A central message is that life is simultaneously