Standing at the podium Victor Villaseñor 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 Villaseñor. Highly gifted and imaginative as a child Villaseñor 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 Villaseñor clung to his dream of one day becoming a writer. He is now considered one of the premier writers of our time.