Luis J. Rodriguez begins his memoir by remembering a day when he is nine years old and his family is on a “bondo-spackled Dodge” and on there way to the Union Station. He begins talking about his mother on how she has purchased him a new comic book. He also begins talking about how his father is refusing to return to Mexico and his mother is angry. She doesn't leave, but Luis notes that he's nothing more than a ball, bouncing wherever, and it makes little difference where the next bounce is. Luis goes to school but is treated poor because the teachers had no idea how to teach a student who wasn’t able to speak English. Luis states on what many teachers told him, “okay, why don’t you sit here in the back of class” she said.” Luis, scared