The Book

Broken
and Made

A self-help book based on a true story.

The current draft cover reflects one of the central moods of the book: a person sitting with the weight of what has been, while something larger remains visible beyond the darkness.

Draft cover of Broken and Made by Prateek Bhatia
About the book

A true story, with questions that reach beyond it.

Broken and Made is a self-help book based on a true story. It explores how experiences can become part of the architecture of a person's thinking, relationships and choices—and what changes when those patterns begin to be understood.

The book moves between lived experience and reflection. It does not offer a simple formula for leaving the past behind. Instead, it examines the ways memory, fear, family, silence, ambition and identity can shape a life, and the possibility of becoming larger than what once defined us.

The details of the story remain deliberately protected on this website. The purpose here is to introduce the questions behind the book without giving away the journey that the reader is meant to discover inside it.

The visual idea

A cover that carries the mood of the book.

A person can carry the weight of what happened without allowing what happened to remain the final definition of who they are.