In her gripping memoir of growing up in a family of sixteen children on a small Texas farm during the Depression of the 1930s, Lita de los Santos recalls the tales her family told of who they were. And in sharing her memories, she paints a vivid picture of how her first-generation Mexican-American family succeeded in creating a life full of courage, togetherness and humor even in tight times.
(In English with short passages of dialog in Spanish.)