Diary of a Dog Patcher - Softcover

Carpenter, Casey

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798999246905

Verlag: Casey Carpenter, 2025

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Diary of a Dog Patcher is a raw and unflinching memoir of trauma, survival, and transformation — told with heartbreaking honesty, unexpected humor, and a fierce love that refuses to let silence win.

Born into a lineage of addiction, abandonment, suicide, and shame, Casey Carpenter was adopted at age five by her maternal grandparents after her teenage mother collapsed into instability. Raised in a modest neighborhood known as “Dog Patch,” where grief was inherited and hard things weren’t spoken aloud, she learned early how to patch together what others left broken.

Over the decades, she held together a family unraveling at the seams — a brother haunted by demons, partners consumed by addiction and depression, a medically fragile son whose diagnosis would redefine her life, and a daughter she was determined to raise without the burden of generational silence.

But this is not a story of redemption by way of perfection.

This is a reckoning. A refusal. A radical act of truth-telling.

Through deeply personal and emotionally resonant chapters, Casey confronts the tragedies that shaped her — the deaths of nearly everyone she loved, the weight of being the strong one, the danger of hiding behind “I’m fine,” and the bravery it takes to choose a different path when everything around you has fallen apart.

With the candid vulnerability of The Glass Castle and the piercing clarity of Know My Name, Diary of a Dog Patcher speaks directly to survivors of trauma, caretakers, cycle-breakers, and anyone trying to rewrite their legacy with brutal self-honesty.

This book is not just for Casey’s children — it’s for anyone who has ever loved someone who couldn’t stay, for anyone who’s had to mother themselves, and for anyone brave enough to face the truth of where they came from in order to decide where they’re going.

It’s not a self-help manual or a tidy redemption arc.

It’s a legacy — rewritten one page, one scar, one brave choice at a time.

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About the AuthorCasey Lee Carpenter is a writer, mother, and cycle-breaker who grew up in a small working-class neighborhood in Moraine, Ohio, affectionately known as "Dog Patch." Raised by her grandparents after her teenage mother's collapse into addiction and mental illness, Casey spent her life learning to survive - and eventually, to heal - from generations of trauma, silence, and loss.A trained accountant with a sharp mind for numbers and a soft heart for people, she built a career in corporate finance while raising two children - including a medically complex son with a rare genetic condition. Her days are a balance of spreadsheets and suction machines, therapy appointments and conference calls, grief and grit. Through it all, she has learned that real strength isn't about holding everything together - it's about learning when to let go, speak up, and tell the truth.Diary of a Dog Patcher is her debut memoir - a deeply personal story of inherited pain, brutal self-honesty, and the everyday bravery of breaking cycles. It is written for her children, so they'll know where they come from but never feel bound by it. And it's written for readers who, like her, were born into unfinished stories - and are still finding the courage to rewrite their own.Casey lives in Ohio with her two children, where she works remotely as a financial controller and runs her publishing imprint, Dog Patcher Press. She spends her spare time advocating for disability rights, homeschooling her son, listening to '90s alternative rock, and drinking too much coffee.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Casey Carpenter
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798999246905
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150
• Herausgeber: Davidow Joie
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland