Margaret Hughes talks to antiques.  When Broken for You begins, the only real relationships Margaret has are with pieces of porcelain and the ghost of her mother.  It takes a brain tumor to spur her into making life altering changes—opening her house to renters.  Her first boarder, Wanda Schultz, has a history of being left behind.  Having been abandoned as a child, she’s in Seattle obsessively searching for the boyfriend who abandoned her.  It will take something momentous to jar her from her compulsive search. 

In her book Broken for You, Stephanie Kallos delves into the variety of ways people get broken and the little things that, when added together, can fix just not individuals but large groups of people.  Heart wrenching and funny in turn, Broken for You is a book to savor.