Book 2010

Grandma's gift

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Publisher: Walker
Language: English
Published: 2010

Gifts
Puerto Ricans
Artists
African Americans
Christmas
Grandmothers
Fiction
Childhood and youth

The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.