The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper

It was also selected for Oprah’s Book Club’s top summer memoir reads and Oprah’s Daily’s selections for top memoirs in 2022.ĭr. The Beauty in Breaking was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The book is included among Barnes & Noble Best Medical Books and Amazon’s 100 Best Books of 2020. She describes how her own healing and that of patients she encountered along the way show we are all healing from something, and how, if we make the choice to heal ourselves, we can heal each other and society at large.Ī New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback editions, The Beauty in Breaking is also a Los Angeles Times and Laura Bush Book Club pick, a Barnes & Noble Monthly Pick, a Book of the Month Club selection, and on the New York Times 2020 list of 100 Notable Books. Harper shares her journey from an abusive childhood home to hectic ERs in New York City and Philadelphia as a Black female doctor-a demanding position in a profession that is still, today, overwhelmingly male and White. In her best-selling memoir, The Beauty in Breaking, Dr. She is an advocate of personal wellness and evolution as a foundation for collective liberation. Michele Harper is an award-winning physician, New York Times bestselling author, and nationally recognized speaker whose work centers on individual healing and social justice. Author photo copyright © Elliot O’DonovanĢ022 Gold Foundation National Humanism in Medicine Medalĭr.

The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper