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Beautifully Broken
Paperback
Publisher: Bianca Vadivellu
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For thirty-one years, Evelyn Hart lived by a strict ledger of human performance. To survive a highly critical mother and the suffocating shadow of her flawless younger sister, Evelyn built an armor of hyper-organized corporate perfectionism. But when a catastrophic workplace failure and public collapse strip her of her credentials, her carefully constructed world shatters into unmanageable pieces.
Stranded and desperate, Evelyn finds herself hiding out in the dilapidated eastern wing of the Oakridge Community Center. Tasked with organizing a neighborhood art exhibition, she is thrust into the unmapped world of Kintsugi-the ancient practice of repairing broken pottery with gleaming gold lacquer.
There she meets Noah, a patient craftsman who sees beauty in jagged edges, and Mrs. Harper, a wise mentor who models radical mercy. As Evelyn tries to manage the community center with rigid spreadsheets, she hits an emotional wall. She is forced to confront the ultimate lie she has believed: I am too broken for God to use.
Through a journey of shared human weakness and a slow-burn connection with Noah, Evelyn discovers that true wholeness does not mean erasing a painful past. It means trading the exhausting pursuit of flawlessness for the unconditional climate of divine grace. As the community unites to build a massive Kintsugi tree mural, Evelyn learns that our scars are not marks of permanent ruin, but the exact places where God's grace becomes visible to the world.
The Gold Between the Cracks is a deeply moving work of Christian women's fiction exploring identity in Christ, the trap of comparison, and the beautiful masterpiece of redemption.
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