Download or read book Joy for Beginners written by Erica Bauermeister and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting with her five close friends to celebrate her recovery from cancer, Kate announces that she will take up white-water rafting if each of them will also do something that equally terrifies them, a challenge that results in a tattoo, a bread-baking endeavor and a reconciliation. 35,000 first printing.