Neglected But Undefeated Book Review

Neglected but Undefeated is a tear-jerking story about abuse, neglect, and healing

A young child wakes up one morning on the laundry room floor in his home. He's completely bruise from head to toe and can't remember how he ended up sleeping there. Awaken by the smell of breakfast cooking in the kitchen, he eagerly stands up and walks into the other room and greets his mother who's in the middle of cooking his favorite breakfast. Soon what starts out as a simple "Good morning mom" quickly escalates into a verbal tug-of-war. Suddenly the child's mother begins to beat him with the hot frying pan she was previously using to cook the eggs in. After beating him with the pan, she then grabs a high heel shoe to finish the job she already started on his defenseless little body. Afterwards, she unplugs all the phone and walks out of the house, leaving him curdle up in pain on the kitchen floor.

This is just one of the many tragic stories of Jonathan Burkett's childhood growing up with a mother who didn't love him, a step-father who turned a blind eye to the excessixe abuse and neglect, and the sexual molestation by the adult females in his life who he thought he could trust.

As a child, all young Jonathan wanted was his mother's love and attention. But in return, all he received was beatings and death threats. Around the age of fourteen, his mother threw him out of the house and with no place to go, he became homeless. One day, he sat his mother down and asked her if she loved him. His mother replied only sent him further down a spiraling hole of depression and uncontrollable rage. However, as Jonathan tries to piece his young adult life together, he encounter people who attempts to uplift and support him through his troubling times. But will the pain from his childhood destroy any chance for a happy future?

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Neglected But Undefeated "The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother's Love"

Growing up in Jamaica, Jonathan ‘John’ Burkett feels loved by his grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins and, most of all, by his grandfather. Little did Johnny know that this little childhood bliss is to end soon when a visitor from America takes him to live with his family.

In the land of the free, the young boy finds himself trapped in a world that’s been turned upside down.

He finally meets his ‘real’ mother, but instead of joy at seeing his son, from whom she’s been separated when he was just a baby, she stares at him as if seeing someone else and cringes at the sight of him. Instead of showering him with love and kisses, as a loving mother should, she showers him with beatings and death threats. Instead of cooking meals for her son, she serves him a plateful of insults. Instead of tucking him to bed at night, she continually kicks him out of her house so he ends up sleeping in friends’ houses, at the park, or on the streets.

One heartbreaking moment in the author’s life was when, after several plots to get him arrested, he straightforwardly asks his mother if she loves him. She looks him in the eye and simply answers, “No.”

This autobiography will grip at your heart as the author pours out his very soul, flooding each page with painful echoes of the past that will not die down while kept bottled up. In time, he realizes that his own grief has been passed on to him by his mother, who experienced incredible anguish at the hands of his biological father. Visit me today online at www.jonathanburkett.com

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Neglected But Undefeated: Neglected But Undefeated "The Life of a Boy Who Ne...: "Author Jonathan Anthony Burkett painfully grew up in a household where love cannot be found, where beatings were part of the daily routine,..."

Neglected But Undefeated "The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother's Love"

Author Jonathan Anthony Burkett painfully grew up in a household where love cannot be found, where beatings were part of the daily routine, and abuse was the inevitable meal on the table. Follow his experiences as he grips at your heart with every page of painful echoes from the past in his poignant memoir, Neglected But Undefeated. This shocking autobiography was written to break free from the past and move on to a better future. It is a triumphant journey to redemption from a traumatic life brought upon by the one who should have loved him most—but didn’t. Read more about Neglected But Undefeated today at www.jonathanburkett.com