We Will Stone Him 

Reminiscent of the book A Child Called It, this book, part of the Rising From The Ashes Trilogy, began as the author John Gambacorta's private attempt to understand the parts of his life that never made sense in the moment, the extreme abuse, the fractures, the shadows, the accusations that reshaped everything he thought he knew. What you will find here is not a dramatic retelling, but a quiet excavation. Gambacorta wrote this memoir to reclaim his voice he lost along the way. 

This is the story of a child trying to make sense of a world that never made sense.
A world where:

• affection could turn into cruelty without warning

• loyalty was demanded but never returned

• emotions were weaponized

• the rules changed daily

• the people meant to protect you became the source of fear

• a child learned to mistrust authority

We Will Stone Him explores the invisible forms of abuse, the psychological and emotional wounds that leave no bruises but shape a child’s entire understanding of love, identity, and worth.

It is a book about the quiet violence that happens behind closed doors.

For decades, I believed my story “was not bad enough” to matter.
That my abuse did not count.
That what happened to me was too ordinary to be spoken aloud.

But trauma does not disappear just because it is invisible.

I wrote We Will Stone Him to give language to the experiences so many survivors carry in silence, the ones that shape us long before we understand what trauma is.

This book is not just my story.
It is the story of anyone who grew up walking on eggshells, trying to stay small, trying to stay safe.