Debra Burroughs grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the tumultuous 1960’s, during the time that the Civil Rights Movement was gearing up and racial tensions were mounting. Her parents moved the family to a more peaceful town in the Central Valley of California, where she excelled at school, was the assistant editor of her high school newspaper, and even had a teen column in the city paper.Starting college, she majored in broadcast journalism, but over time she changed her major to business. Even though she moved her focus to business, she never lost her love for writing. She always hoped one day to return to it.Over the years, with a large Mexican family, she heard many… stories about their history, particularly from her mother and grandmother. As she would relay these colorful and heart-wrenching family stories to her friends, many times she would hear them say, “You should really write a book about that.” So she did.