Diary of a Dog Patcher

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. 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,