--- description: The publication comes just a month before the five year anniversary of his death title: Trayvon Martin's Parents Will Release Their Book in January image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bca95a90bd7d453/6988a7e5196cf42b3b03d5d2/trayvon-parents.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Trayvon Martin's Parents Will Release Their Book in January by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 28, 2016 2:31 PM CUT  The parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton, left, and Tracy Martin, listen to their attorneys, during a news conference at the National Association of Black Journalists national convention, in Orlando, Florida, Friday, August 2, 2013. The parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton, left, and Tracy Martin, listen to their attorneys, during a news conference at the National Association of Black Journalists national convention, in Orlando, Florida, Friday, August 2, 2013.Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel—MCT/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 28, 2016 2:31 PM CUT Trayvon Martin’s parents will release [a book about their son](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bookmark/trayvon-martins-parents-sign-book-933270 "undefined") in January, just a month before the five-year anniversary of his death. Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton have reportedly been working on the book for several years; in [2013](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/business/media/trayvon-martins-parents-are-planning-a-book.html "undefined"), they met with several publishers to discuss the idea. The book ended up at Random House’s multicultural One World imprint, which is being rebooted by editor [Chris Jackson](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/penguin-random-house-editor-interview-932606 "undefined") (known for editing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ _Between the World_ _and Me,_ Eddie Huang’s _Fresh Off the Boat_ and other touchstone books about race in America). Jackson describes this book as bringing Trayvon “back to life as the full, three-dimensional, complex kid he was, through his parents’ eyes, and then to the dark and confusing days following his death, which slowly transform into the blossoming of a powerful, historic movement for change and healing that we’re still watching unfold five years later,” he tells the _Hollywood Reporter_. “Everyone who’s been reading the manuscript is in tears by the second chapter.” [_Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812997239/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined")will debut Jan. 31, 2017. \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bookmark/trayvon-martins-parents-sign-book-933270 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4511419/trayvon-martin-parents-book/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4511419/trayvon-martin-parents-book/"},"headline":"Trayvon Martin's Parents Will Release Their Book in January","datePublished":"2016-09-28T14:31:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:53:05.395Z","description":"The publication comes just a month before the five year anniversary of his death","url":"https://time.com/4511419/trayvon-martin-parents-book/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bca95a90bd7d453/6988a7e5196cf42b3b03d5d2/trayvon-parents.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bca95a90bd7d453/6988a7e5196cf42b3b03d5d2/trayvon-parents.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trayvon Martin's parents speak at NABJ convention","caption":"Trayvon Martin's parents speak at NABJ convention","creditText":"Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel—MCT/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4511419/trayvon-martin-parents-book/","name":"Trayvon Martin's Parents Will Release Their Book in January"}}]}] ```