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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin is a non-fiction book written by the parents of Trayvon Martin a young man who was forced into the media spot light after losing his life to racial violence.

Summary
Written nearly five years after the events of the book took place as both as means to heal and share with the world the Trayvon Martin they knew and loved and the impact the events had on their life.

The book is introduced by Sybrina Fulton Travyon's mother who states “no one gets over the death of a child” and how before the incident she felt she was just another “anonymous” american whose goes through life in a predictable rhythm of work, school, church and picnics. But after the death of Travyon she became an activist to prevent other senseless gun violence. But this activism "failed to prevent the death of Jordan Davis (Jacksonville, Florida), Michael Brown (Ferguson, Missouri), Tamir Rice (Cleveland, Ohio), Eric Garner (New York City) as well as countless others".

Sybrina goes on to discuss her son Trayvon Martin and how before he became a “martyr” and “symbol of racial injustice” he was simply a boy growing up trying to find his way in life. She reflects on her own life growing up and meeting and marrying Tracy Martin and raising Trayvon together.

The rest of book switches between Sybrina and Tracy as they discuss being forced out of their lives as ordinary americans and into the spot light because of death of their son and the events that followed.

Publisher
The book was published by Spiegel & Grau which is a division of Penguin Random House books on 31 January 2017.

Review
Rest in Power was reviewed my numerous: critics, newspapers, media outlets and other web sites. Most of them giving the book between four and five stars.