First-time Latino author reveals the rough side of growing up Latino on the Texas border

By Latina Lista

LatinaLista — Domingo Martinez is Brownsville-born and bred but it’s not a place that he calls home anymore. For the last 20 years, he’s called the Pacific Northwest home, specifically Seattle — about as far away from the tip of Texas as one could get without slushing across Canada to reach the 49th state.

In the years, since he’s left Brownsville behind, he’s had a lot of time to think about his childhood, his family and how his life in Brownsville had a hand in shaping who he is today. In fact, he must have thought about it so much that he finally decided to sit down and put his memories to paper — and we’re all richer for it.

Martinez’s life has become the award winning title The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir — and it’s his first book!

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