The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
New York: Riverhead Books, 2020. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #2321703
ISBN: 9780525537380
Book club edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
284 pp. Author's first book. 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.
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