Portland Public Library

The gravity of joy, a story of being lost and found, Angela Williams Gorrell

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234)

contains biographical information

no index present

non fiction

The gravity of joy

bibliography

1196822722

Angela Williams Gorrell

a story of being lost and found

"An extended reflection on finding authentic Christian joy in the midst of suffering and despair, especially the twenty-first-century epidemics of suicide and addiction"--, Provided by publisherShortly after being hired by Yale University to study joy, Gorrell got word that a close family member had died by suicide. Less than a month later, she lost her father to a fatal opioid addiction and her nephew to sudden cardiac arrest. The theoretical joy she was researching at Yale suddenly felt unattainable in the fog of grief she now found herself in. She began volunteering at a women's maximum-security prison, where she met people who suffered extensively yet still showed a tremendous capacity for joy. Here she offers an invitation for others to seize upon this more resilient joy as a counteragent to the twenty-first-century epidemics of despair, addiction, and suicide. -- adapted from jacket