A Letter To My Younger Self Paperback – March 25, 2026

A Letter to My Younger Self: Wisdom, Pain, Grace, and the Journey Back to YouBy Rony MartinezWhat would you say to the boy who grew up between three languages, two cultures, and one Bronx apartment that held more love than it had room for?This is that letter.Rony Martinez — Bronx-born son of the Garífuna diaspora — writes with raw honesty to the child he once was: the boy who felt invisible in classrooms that never taught his history, who learned strength from streets that also taught him silence, who carried the weight of generations without knowing it had a name.A Letter to My Younger Self is not just a memoir. It is a reckoning — with identity, faith, anger, loss, and the kind of grace that only makes sense looking backward. Woven throughout are the words, culture, and unbreakable spirit of the Garífuna people, one of history's greatest survival stories, told through the lens of one man's journey from the South Bronx to the person his ancestors were building all along.This book is for every child who grew up between worlds. For every young man who was never told that his tears were not weakness. For every person still carrying pain that never had a name. And for every Garífuna soul, near or far from the coast of Honduras, who needs to be reminded:You were never just a product of your circumstances. You were always being prepared for something greater.Aü bun amürü nu. — I am here for you and you here for me. Read more