Sherman Alexie

Undaunted Joy

Christian Living

“My favorite sentence in Shemaiah Gonzalez’s Undaunted Joy is “He wanted to paint joy.” It might surprise you to know that she’s writing about Van Gogh and his art. That’s what Gonzalez does with this book. She can take a person almost universally known as a symbol of desperation and see the brightness in him. We live in fraught times—we’ve always lived in fraught times—but Gonzalez teaches us that people have always found their way to joy.”