Standing at the podium, Victor Villasenor looked at the group of
educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood
memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers. He
became enraged. With a pounding heart, he began to speak of these
incidents. When he was through, to his great disbelief he received
a standing ovation. Many in the audience could not contain their
own tears.
So begins the passionate, touching memoir of Victor Villasenor.
Highly gifted and imaginative as a child, Villasenor coped with an
untreated learning disability (he was finally diagnosed, at the age
of forty-four, with extreme dyslexia) and the frustration of
growing up Latino in an English-only American school in the 1940s.
Despite teachers who beat him because he could not speak English,
Villasenor clung to his dream of one day becoming a writer. He is
now considered one of the premier writers of our time.
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