Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Michele Harper

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 160 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: United States.
• ISBN: 0525537406

✦ Synopsis

The New York Times Bestseller
"Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring." --_The New York Times Book Review
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An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.
Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn't move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman.
In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an...

✦ Subjects

United States