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Title:
Becoming Dr. Q : My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon.
Author:
Quinones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
ISBN:
9780520949607

9781283278164
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Abstract:
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing life story--from his impoverished childhood in the tiny village of Palaco, Mexico, to his harrowing border crossing and his transformation from illegal immigrant to American citizen and gifted student at the University of California at Berkeley and at H.
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