Broken for You

Stephanie Kallos

A moving story of broken people and the healing of the pieces of the fractured self.

It is the story of an elderly woman dying of a brain tumor. She has lived with a dark secret her entire adult life. Her parents died when she was quite young and her husband divorced her leaving her quite alone in an 11 room mansion. One day her loneliness decides to reach out and she takes in a boarder: a lonely young woman searching for her runaway lover, herself abandoned by her parents at a young age. This one decision leads to a mending.a redemption of their lives and the lives of others. Loneliness and the search for unity with another are universal and to varied degrees are shared by us all. Such is the power of a great book. It can allow one to look through another’s eyes and realize we are not so alone in our brokenness.

A beautiful and creative work, fans of The Secret Life of Bees will enjoy this.

Review by Tony Kainauskas