Brokenness

As she writes about experiences of brokenness, both in her own life and in the lives of her patients, Michele Harper subverts the concept of brokenness and negative and encourages readers to find opportunities for growth, rebirth, and healing in these moments. Michele herself begins the book from a place of brokenness after the end of her marriage. Over the course of the narrative, she rebuilds her life and is reborn after that major transition. As she discovers over the course of her journey, finding rebirth from a place of brokenness requires forgiveness and a commitment to healing.

In addition to Michele’s personal narrative, each chapter of the book focuses on one or more patients who have arrived in the emergency room with their own stories of brokenness. As they are in the hospital for treatment, they are all dealing with physical ailments, but Michele extrapolates their...