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Diary of a Dog Patcher is a bold and emotionally gripping memoir about surviving generational trauma, addiction, grief, and silence-and choosing to break the cycle. Raised by her grandparents in a working-class Ohio neighborhood called ""Dog Patch,"" Casey Lee Carpenter was born into a legacy of pain few dared to name. Her memoir traces a life shaped by abandonment, violence, mental illness, and loss-but also by resilience, deep love, and a fierce determination to heal. Told with raw honesty, sharp insight, and unexpected humor, Diary of a Dog Patcher takes readers on a journey through childhood survival, motherhood, caregiving, and the everyday bravery of rebuilding after collapse. Along the way, Casey challenges cultural silence around trauma and invites readers to reckon with what we carry-and what we can choose to set down. For fans of memoirs like The Glass Castle and Educated, this is a story of truth-telling, cycle-breaking, and claiming the future as your own.

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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.

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