GLENNON DOYLE
Author of #1 New York Times Bestseller Untamed
and Founder of Together Rising, says:
“What could be more important, in this moment, than a story about embracing power, love, and beauty when one’s perfectly laid plans crumble? I read Janine Reid’s The Opposite of Certainty cover-to-cover in one sitting. I set it down feeling more hopeful, peaceful, steady. I loved this book.”
The Opposite of Certainty is the story of Janine’s reluctant journey beyond easy answers and platitudes. She searches for a source of strength bigger than her circumstances, only to have her circumstances become even thornier with her own crisis. Drawn deeply and against her will into herself, and into the eternal questions we all ask, she discovers hidden reserves of strength, humor, and a no-matter-what faith that looks nothing like she thought it would.
Beautifully written and deeply hopeful, Janine shows us how can we come through impossible times, transformed and yet more ourselves than we’d ever allowed ourselves to be.
“This is Janine Urbaniak Reid’s brilliant, rich, breathtakingly honest and sometimes very funny account of defying the gravity of her circumstances.”
–Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Grace (Eventually)
“Full of spiritual grace and shining with a kind of rare hope, yes, it brings you to your knees, but miraculously shows you that this might actually be the best vantage point to see the stars. Extraordinary.”
– Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and Cruel Beautiful World
Janine Urbaniak Reid was born in Chicago and grew up in California. She graduated from the University of California at San Diego. She was vice president of a San Francisco public relations firm before she began raising a family, and then writing full time.
She has been published in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and widely syndicated. Hoping to bring humanity into the healthcare discussion by sharing her experience as a mother of son with a brain tumor, she penned a piece for the Post which went viral. She has been interviewed on national news networks, and continues her work as a spokeswoman for healthcare justice.
Janine writes about her imperfect life, what connects us, and addresses the question of what it means to love fiercely in a sometimes dangerous and always uncertain world.
She lives in Northern California with her family and a motley assortment of pets. She attends St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Marin City: all are welcome.
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