Early next year Random House will publish “Rest In Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin,” editor Chris Jackson confirmed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter (THR).
Written by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the parents of the Florida teenager fatally shot in February 2012 by George Zimmerman, the book will hit bookstores on January 31, 2017, and is already available for pre-order on Amazon.com in hardcover, Kindle and audio CD formats.
“It’s amazing. Everyone who’s been reading the manuscript is in tears by the second chapter,” Chris Jackson, editor-in-chief of Random House’s One World imprint told The Hollywood Reporter (THR) in an interview published Wednesday.
“It’s not just about the mournful story about losing a child, but it’s also how that moment ignited this global movement,” added Mr. Jackson, who is black.
“I love stories of people who have awakenings, you know?” he said later in the THR interview when asked about the Colin Kaepernick controversy and if he’d like to publish a book by the San Francisco 49ers quarterback.
“That’s so much of what African-American memoir tradition is, this moment when the scales fall off of your eyes and you’re like, ’Oh my God, I have to do something.’ And you change.”
• Ken Shepherd can be reached at kshepherd@washingtontimes.com.
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