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The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper

16 reviews

luckyonesoph's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.5

A really solid medical memoir! I really appreciated how Dr. Harper talked through her decision-making, and the dynamics between all the staff members at emergency departments. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Gun violence, and Sexual violence

rbrown's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

I absolutely adored this book! I’m usually a reader of fiction and have this book a try after seeing it as a recommended book at a local bookstore and I am so glad I did. Dr Harper is incredibly insightful and has a gift not only for medicine but to delicately describe life and death and connect to her own everyday experiences and emotions. This book made me take a step and look into my on lived experiences and traumas and the hopes to move forward. I sincerely hope she continues to write! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, and Medical trauma

Minor: Violence and Xenophobia

pisces1_1318's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Dr. Michele Harper memoir was so touching and interesting. Her storytelling is unlike any memoirs I have ever read. I often forgot that this was a true story. We need more Dr. Harper's in medicine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death, Body horror, and Blood

jendif's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Child death

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, Abortion, and Suicide

sarahlizbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Addiction, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

blackcatkai's review

informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

CW: death (child & adult), child abuse, ableism, fatphobic & trans-exclusionary vibes (as is common when dealing with the medical/health field as a whole, apparently), sexual assault 

overall i enjoyed reading about Dr Harper & her beginning years in the medical field. mostly the last 1/3rd kind of got under my skin, but that may be a preference thing. a lot of good insight here, though the author is big into forgiveness to grow while I am a firm proponent of you don't owe anyone anything, not even forgiveness. 

you can absolutely grow & flourish without needing to forgive someone who hurt you. but that's just me and that's ok! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Chronic illness, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Rape, Terminal illness, Violence, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Ableism, Drug abuse, Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Police brutality, Abortion, Fatphobia, Grief, and Drug use

becksss's review

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Cancer, Child death, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

poppyseedromance's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Suicidal thoughts

lorepineiro's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is the first book from my adventure with the non-fiction genre: memoirs from an ER doctor who narrates not only her own hardships growing up and well into adulthood, but also those of her patients and shows readers, just like the title says, the beauty in breaking. Many of the cases Harper describes are absolutely heartbreaking, but others are incredibly inspiring, and hearing about what these people have gone through and how they have gathered strength and courage to get better is so encouraging. This book centers around self-love and acceptance and the message really resonated with me as I was reading and it still does now. The use of medical terms was a bit confusing at times, but a quick google search cleared almost all doubts, and medical knowledge is not necessarily needed to understand the book or it’s overall message. Truly, I hope everyone else that reads this book feels as motivated as I have.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Racism

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Sexual assault

maya_reads_books's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Abortion, Rape, and Sexual assault