Author Alonzo Cavin paints a poignant tale of an unwed, uneducated Black mother and her son’s triumph over the vestiges of enslavement, Jim Crow, segregation and unemployment. Released through Xlibris, This Is My Story paints
a vivid picture of a life that speaks of fear, hate, faith, courage and love.
This Is My Story follows the fascinating story of Chico, his mother, and the people who revolve around them. Chico, as a young boy, seems to have witness it all. Moving, in 1941, from the segregated South to the equally segregated North, life was far from easy. But with his mother’s love, he lives everyday learning more about life and preparing himself for his adulthood in post industrial America. Throughout the engrossing pages of this riveting book, readers will find themselves engaged in the daily lives of these interesting and real life characters.
A heart wrenching and thought provoking tale, This Is My Story offers a glimpse of how poverty, racism, hard work and luck shaped the life of another one of America’s Native Sons.
This Is My Story will be featured in the California Library Association Regional Book Exhibit in Pasadena, California, 
which will run on October 31- November 01, 2009. For more information, log on to Xlibris.com.
About the Author
After college and a four-year stint in the US Navy, Alonzo Cavin began a teaching career in 1965. As a former low-income, disadvantaged student, his main academic concern has been helping low-income students achieve success in higher education. His doctoral dissertation and most of his publications have been investigations into the educational, social, and political concerns of these students. Since retiring as Associate Professor Emeritus from Widener University, Alonzo Cavin turned his attention to his first work of fiction. Although based on actual people and situations he encountered first hand, he felt that he had to get into these persons’ heads. Since no one truly knows what anyone is actually thinking, he has to label this a work of fiction, but the characters are real, and their triumphs and failures are too. In This Is My Story, the author wants to make his academic, scholarly pursuit come alive.
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