As a child, Asaf Anonimi was bullied and abused. He told no one ? and he kept that silence for forty-six years.

On the outside, he built the life he was supposed to want: a wife, children, a home. But the boy who learned to guard his secret never really left. He stood watch inside every room, kept the people he loved at arm's length, and carried a weight no one around him could see.

Then, at fifty-six, it all surfaced ? and he could no longer look away.

The Goalkeeper is the raw, true story of one man's fight to survive his own past and find his way back to life. It is not a straight road. This is a memoir of trauma and recovery in their truest form ? moving through collapse and healing, through the days the ground gives way and the days he claws back a little more of himself. It is the long, unsteady climb of a survivor learning, after a lifetime on guard, how to actually live.

Some battles you don't win by keeping everything out. You win by finally letting something through.

A story of resilience, healing, and the courage it takes to finally break a lifelong silence ? for readers of Educated, The Glass Castle, and A Child Called It.

If you've ever carried something you couldn't say out loud, this story will stay with you.