What happens when the people who love you are also the source of your deepest wounds? When those who are supposed to protect you are fighting battles they never healed from, and you don't just witness the fallout, you become collateral damage.
 
In The Odd One Out, Cassandra Karch delivers a raw, unflinching memoir about identity, survival, and the quiet inheritance of generational pain.  Raised by a young mother in a world quick to judge, Cassandra grew up under constant scrutiny.  Her mother's love was fierce, but it was questioned, judged, and tested at every turn.  Love alone, no matter how powerful, cannot shield a child from unhealed trauma.
 
This memoir is more than a portrait of a mother or a picture of a father. It is a reckoning with the silence that lingers in families.
 
Over the course of three years, Cassandra uncovers buried truths about her father, faces the reality of a mother hardened by her own wounds, and begins the painful work of untangling inherited trauma. What unfolds is a deeply honest exploration of race, belonging, survival, and the search for an identity that feels like home.
 
The Odd One Out is for anyone who has ever felt misplaced in their own family and found the courage to find themselves anyway.