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The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper

2 reviews

ekmook's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

jourdanicus's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

I came to this book after reading a few other medical memoirs and boy was I not prepared for it (in the best way). Dr. Harper recalls stories of patients who have affected her and draws connections between their experiences, the lessons she learned from them, her own experiences as a Black woman/survivor of abuse, and to top it all off brings in discussion of systemic and institutional racism/sexism/violence. Just... incredible. It was both refreshing and challenging (in a growth way) to read a memoir by someone who is so mentally and spiritually well, and has truly done the work to get to that point. I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone, I think we all have a lot to learn from it. Much respect and appreciation to Dr. Harper for sharing parts of her life and perspective in the form of this book.

*And yes, there are a lot of potential triggers discussed in this book but Dr. Harper handles each topic with such sensitivity and grace that, while this may be a challenging read for some, it is not carelessly or blatantly triggering. I hope the content warnings don't drive away any potential readers.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Blood, Abortion, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Drug use, Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Rape