Reading this book, I had originally thought it was a novel, but to my surprise, it was a memoir. The importance now is to learn whether we have healed from these fractures. Whether that brokenness be physical, mental or spiritual, we are all struggling with our own invisible fractures that we make only selected people aware of. To further explain, the idea behind her experience as an African American female emergency physician is that each of us has been broken at one point in our lives. She states how we are all in fact broken, one way or another. In The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper, the author defies this question. The interesting thing about bones and fractures is that most of them heal, and one is able to function afterward - sometimes better and stronger than before. It is an interesting question to assess - what it is to be truly broken and whether we tie negativity within that brokenness. But what about all those individuals, including myself, who have never broken a bone? Does that mean that we have never been broken? Have you ever broken a bone? If you have, then you probably have thought that you are considered to be physically broken.
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