Publisher's Synopsis
The Boy in the Mirror
By Jonny Andre Henningsen a first-time author.
This is not just a book.
This is a cry from the silence.
A letter from the edge.
A reckoning with a past too heavy to carry, and too dangerous to ignore.
Based on a true story, The Boy in the Mirror is a raw, unflinching memoir of childhood trauma, brotherhood, and survival inside a home no child should ever have to endure. Told through the voice of a man confronting the broken boy still trapped in his reflection, this book is a journey through pain, guilt, love, and the deep scars left behind by abuse, grief, and silence.
From sleepless nights protecting younger siblings from a violent parent...
To barefoot escapes into fields where football was the only therapy...
To the devastating death of the youngest brother, who was the heartbeat of their world...
This story doesn't flinch. It doesn't sanitize. It doesn't offer easy closure.
But it does offer truth.
And maybe, for someone out there, a flicker of connection in the darkness.
For readers of Educated by Tara Westover, A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer, or The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, this memoir speaks directly to those who've carried heavy things since childhood things they were never meant to carry. It's a testament to the bond between siblings in the face of chaos... and to the voices that trauma silences, until the moment they finally scream.
The Boy in the Mirror is not about happy endings.
It's about surviving long enough to tell the story.
And if you've ever seen your own pain staring back from the glass
This book is for you.
