Bed Stuy authors pins book: ‘Packing Sneakers and a Gun,'
Memoir chronic life as stick up kid turned model
By Catlin McNamara - Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — When Henry Morales was orphaned at 6 years of age, he left home carrying sneakers and a bag of toy guns. Little could he know how accurately this moment foreshadowed his violent youth — that he would be funneled through institutions and have to fight to make his way on the streets of Brooklyn.

In his just published memoir, Journey of a Man: Packing Sneakers and a Gun, Morales narrates the horrors of his childhood and criminal past, and describes how he overcame them to find peace. It is a story of abandonment, abuse, robbery and murder.