Grandma's gift

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.

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

Places: New York (State),  New York (N.Y.),  New York