The Gospel of the Broken and the Beautiful: A Ritual of Hunger, Flame, and Return

By MM Williams

A novel in confessions. A gospel in cities. A hymn for the haunted.

What if every city held a version of you you'd tried to forget?

What if your heartbreaks could be mapped - not chronologically, but geographically?

What if memory, hunger, and holiness were the same language - spoken through lovers, strangers, and the perfume of the one who almost stayed?

Spanning twenty cities, The Gospel of the Broken and the Beautiful is a lyrical and luminous journey through the emotional ruins of exile, desire, and becoming. Told in a series of intimate, immersive chapters - each named for a woman and a city - this debut defies genre: part memoir, part poetic fiction, part spiritual cartography.

Written in breath-paced, rhythmic prose - and rich with the sensory language of cardamom, salt, bruised silk, and unspoken prayers - this book is for those who have ever packed a suitcase with more regret than clothing, and for anyone who knows that sometimes the most sacred thing you can do is remember.

From Lisbon to Tokyo, Paris to Tehran, and all the borderless dreamscapes between, this book doesn't just tell a story.

It invites you to confess your own.

Perfect for readers who crave:

Lyrical, poetic proseQueer love and lossTravel as emotional excavationThemes of exile, memory, and sacred longingBooks that feel like whispered prayers

This is not the kind of gospel that saves.

This is the kind that stays.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FP31KXHD
• ISBN13: 9798262613496
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"