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Standing on the podium, Victor Villaseñor seemed on the team of educators accrued ahead of him, and his thoughts flooded with early life recollections of humiliation and abuse by the hands of his academics. He was enraged. With a pounding middle, he started to talk of those incidents. While he was once via, to his nice disbelief he gained a status ovation. Many within the target market may just now not include their very own tears.

So starts the passionate, touching memoir of Victor Villaseñor. Extremely talented and resourceful as a kid, Villaseñor coped with an untreated studying incapacity (he was once after all identified, on the age of 40-4, with excessive dyslexia) and the disappointment of rising up Latino in an English-handiest American college within the Forties. Regardless of academics who beat him as a result of he may just now not discuss English, Villaseñor clung to his dream of someday changing into a author. He’s now thought to be one of the crucial surest writers of our time.