Fourteen-year-old
Rachel guards a collection of secrets for ten years, journaling to vent her
terror and loneliness.
What
the single, working mother recalls is a far cry from what happens, as
dramatically revealed in tandem chapters gleaned from Rachel's journals. While
the mother sprints from task to task, the daughter details the baffling
emergence and frightening progression of bulimia, diabulimia, and borderline
personality disorder; her eventual substance abuse; and heart-wrenching reasons
for not seeking help.
Following
Rachel's fatal overdose years later, her mother, Carolyn DiPasquale, stumbles
upon her daughter's diaries. Shattered, she searches for answers, retracing her
steps to figure out how parents and doctors missed three major mental illnesses.
Despite
her loss, DiPasquale hopes her story lights a path for victims of mental
illness while awakening all readers.
Publisher:
E.L. Marker
ISBN-10:
1947966550
ISBN-13:
978-1947966550
ASIN:
B09W69TT11
Print
length: 546 pages
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a copy of Reckless Grace on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshop.org. You can also add this to your GoodReads reading list.
About the Author:
Carolyn
DiPasquale grew up in Franksville, Wisconsin, graduating from UW-Milwaukee with
a double major in English and French. In 1983, she moved to Rhode Island where
she raised three children while pursuing her Master’s in English at the
University of Rhode Island. Over her career, she taught literature and
composition at various New England colleges; worked as a technical writer at
the Naval Underseas Warfare Center in Newport; and wrote winning grants as a
volunteer for Turning Around Ministries, a Newport aftercare program for
ex-offenders. She has been an active member of the Newport Round Table, a
professional writing group (founded in 1995), since 2013.
DiPasquale
currently lives in Richmond, Rhode Island where she has started working on a
sequel to Reckless Grace. She has also ventured into writing children’s books.
In her free time, she enjoys cooking and baking with healthy ingredients,
hiking and trapshooting with her husband Phil, and volunteering at the New Hope
Chapel food pantry in Carolina, Rhode Island.
Visit
her website to follow her updates. You can also follow her on Instagram or Facebook.
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