{"product_id":"the-gravity-of-joy-angela-williams-gorrell-9780802877949","title":"The Gravity of Joy: A Story of Being Lost and Found","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"My vocation was supposed to be joy, and I was speaking at funerals.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortly after being hired by Yale University to study joy, Angela 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, only twenty-two years old, to sudden cardiac arrest. The theoretical joy she was researching at Yale suddenly felt shallow and distant--completely unattainable in the fog of grief she now found herself in. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut joy was closer at hand than it seemed. As she began volunteering at a women's maximum-security prison, she met people who suffered extensively yet still showed a tremendous capacity for joy. Talking with these women, many of whom had struggled with addiction and suicidal thoughts themselves, she realized: \"Joy doesn't obliterate grief. . . . Instead, joy has a mysterious capacity to be felt alongside sorrow and even--sometimes most especially--in the midst of suffering.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of Angela's discovery of an authentic, grounded Christian joy. But even more, it is 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--a call to action for communities that yearn to find joy and are willing to \"walk together through the shadows\" to find it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angela Williams Gorrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080287794X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802877949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2021 pg. 6","brand":"Angela Williams Gorrell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44049943691519,"sku":"9780802877949","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_251f8713-cdfd-486f-bb34-52c5aa12a021.jpg?v=1685004291","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gravity-of-joy-angela-williams-gorrell-9780802877949","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}