Grandma's gift

By Eric Velasquez

Subjects: Christmas, fiction, Grandmothers, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Christmas, Childhood and youth, Christmas stories, Fiction, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Puerto Ricans, Artists, fiction, Hispanic American illustrators, Gifts, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Juvenile fiction, Puerto ricans, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Artists, Gifts, fiction

Description: 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.