Boxing shadows
By: by W. K. Stratton with Anissa "The Assassin" Zamarron.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780292721296
Subjects: Zamarron, Anissa; Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography; Women boxers -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: Reaching the top in any sport requires a long, hard climb. But when you start with the baggage of years of family dysfunction and incarceration in a hellish mental hospital, the climb is especially steep. Yet even with such weights to carry, Anissa Zamarron won not one, but two, world championships in women's boxing. Her story, as dramatically intense as the Clint Eastwood film Million Dollar Baby, is one of tremendous courage and determination to overcome the odds against her as a Latina and as a woman working through mental illness and addiction--a fight in which Zamarron has been as powerful and successful as she has been in the boxing ring.