A heart-warming story of perseverance and loss of innocence between the ages of 4 and 16 in the face of family dysfunction and adversity.

Book proceeds go to children’s charitable organizations.

A True Story of Innocence

One of few stories that truly express the raw emotions and harrowing look inside a child’s soul-crushing loss of innocence.

Struggle to Adulthood

Wawa, one of seven children, struggles in the face of fear, loneliness, anxiety, hardship and poverty in order to survive to adulthood.

Soul-Crushing Loneliness

As a reader you are given a glimpse, a rare chance, to feel and experience Wawa’s dissolving innocence.

Strength & Perseverance

With continued suffering, Wawa’s undying hopes build even as he wades through adversity making the reader wanting to turn the page.

One of the Silent Ones

It is an account that resonates with the lives of thousands of abused and neglected children who remain invisible.

You Can Help

You can help the silent ones when you purchase this book as the proceeds will go to charity.

In each of us there is a story that needs to be told...

This true, first-person memoir of a boy’s perseverance in the face of family dysfunction and adversity in the Montreal area of the 1960s and early ’70s offers a harrowing look inside a child’s soul-crushing loss of innocence between the ages of 4 and 16. Wawa, one of seven children born to an alcoholic father and clinically depressed mother, refuses offers to fix his broken glasses, wearing them as an outward statement of his heartbreakingly broken life.

His hunger for love and guidance and his will to survive to adulthood in the face of fear, loneliness, anxiety, hardship and poverty will have readers cheering him on. This is an account that resonates with the lives of thousands of abused and neglected children who remain invisible. Wawa is the voice of the silent ones.

Help the Silent Ones by Getting this Book

Each one of us can make a difference by giving back to society, either through awareness, passing on knowledge, or by contributing through physical or monetary means. This books is a stepping stone towards making a better place for the less fortunate children that have no voice. As such, proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the following charities for children…

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Testimonials from our readers...

This is an amazing reconstruction of a very difficult childhood.

I felt pure joy when you reunited with your mother. I shared your defiance against your father. You allowed me to live your story, rather than just read it.

What a fascinating, heartbreaking and harrowing look inside the growing-up experiences of a child who suffers so much neglect and abuse.

I cried with you, especially during your first experience at the home. I felt triumph and a sense of value, when you worked your way to New York…

You took me on such a journey. I felt your innocence and with every heartbreak try to reach out… I lost that innocence with you.

The Kid With Broken Glasses is a reminder for people of conscience to look out for the ‘silent ones’!

Blanche’s review says…

“…I read your book and WOW! I would NEVER have known all that you had to go through just looking at you. You’re such a loving a warm person and had a successful life despite all that you had to endure. So I can imagine if you had gotten all the support while growing up, sky would have been the limit to explore your curious mind”

It really helped me understand how an innocent child, left to fend for himself without love, can end up straying into destructive habits of mind and body.

An amazing reconstruction of a very difficult childhood, effectively told from a growing child’s point of view.

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About the Author

A world traveller, amateur photographer and author, Walter Manuel comes from a diverse background of experiences that have led him to write this book.

Always wanting to write about his traumatic childhood and to be able to give back to the silent ones, Walter decided to write his debut novel as a memoir, a book about feelings. A fascinating, heartbreaking and harrowing book written in the first person about the growing-up experiences of a child who suffers much neglect and abuse.

As he was writing his memoir, the two homes that are in the book burned to the ground erasing part of Walter’s physical past.