Everything Happens for a Reason

When I picked up this book, I thought there must be a higher reason why I was doing so – perhaps something amazingly divine. This very idea was something that the book decided to corner me about right from the moment I plunged into the first page.

Everything Happens for a Reason is a delightful and yet shattering read. Before I began reading it, I had no idea what it was about. I didn’t even know whether it was a novel or a self-help book. Turned out: it was both.

EHFAR documents the autobiographical account of the wonderful author Kate Bowler, who is one day suddenly diagnosed with Stage-IV cancer. At several moments in the book, one’s tear ducts become active as one goes through a first-hand account of a lady who is aslo a mother – and what a motherly mother!

Now that I have finished the reading part, I have embarked on the second part that comes as a supplement with the book: the thinking part. The book leaves the reader with philosophical and deep questions to ponder over: what’s the deal with reasons of events? Does every effect have a “cause”? Value of life? The question of love? The idea of dying? It’s not easy to put it down – both the book and the questions. It seems pretty much every book in the world tries to make us rethink all our understanding of reality and make fresh reforms!