An ode to the overlooked. A tribute to mediocre donuts. A lament on lost dreams. In Cracked & Broken, award-winning poet Sean Petrie celebrates the things we crack and break through, to make it to middle age. And the pieces of ourselves-both good and bad-we discover along the way.

Cracked & Broken is a tender mix of storms and sunrises, friendships and heartaches, laughter and loss and love-and a reminder that there is always another daybreak, always a crack of hope, at every stage in the beautiful, mistake-filled journey of life.