Where Money Grows on Trees

<p>For the Soto family survival meant more than just making ends meet-it meant crossing borders to start over in a foreign land where language culture and dignity felt just out of reach. </p><p></p><p>When Lupe was just eight years old she found herself in the middle of cherry orchards and dusty fields working ardu-ous long hours alongside her parents and siblings. Her family had once lived a life of wealth and power in Mexico-but when her mother left everything behind to search for her estranged husband in the U.S. that life was replaced by one of sacrifice survival and relentless hard work as migrant workers.</p><p> </p><p>Where Money Grows on Trees is a deeply personal story of courage resilience and love. It›s about a mother who led with courage when there was no roadmap who held her family together through poverty culture shock and her husband's alcoholism-while never letting her children forget that they were meant for more.</p><p></p><p>Lupe never stopped believing in something better while picking fruit and honoring her mother's sacrifices and teachings to now live a prosperous life.</p><p></p>