Carlos B. Zavala was born in 1951 to peasant parents, in a remote village in southern México. He is the eighth sibling in a family of fourteen. In 1956, after years of suffering severe physical abuse, hunger, and misery, Carlos and his family settled in Tijuana, Baja California. In 1964, they started the process of migrating the family, one by one, to the United States. In 1966, Carlos came to Anaheim, California and in 1970, he became the first of his siblings to graduate from high school. In 1974, he graduated from California State University, Fullerton and he went on to become chief of a large statewide program within the California Department of Public Health.
The Zavala Chronicles
Love, Faith, and Obstinate Grit to Save Herself and Her Family are the Only Weapons a Mexican Mother has to Fight Against Criminal Danger, Poverty, Alcoholism, Domestic Violence, and Bigotry
by Carlos B. Zavala
The Zavala Chronicles
Love, Faith, and Obstinate Grit to Save Herself and Her Family are the Only Weapons a Mexican Mother has to Fight Against Criminal Danger, Poverty, Alcoholism, Domestic Violence, and Bigotry
by Carlos B. Zavala
Published Apr 12, 2018
306 Pages
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs