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
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Beautiful Life
Content: Bi/multilingual
Settings: New York, Northern America, United States of America
Ethnicity: Multiethnic, Puerto Rican
Immigration: Immigrant/Migrant
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Bi/Multiracial/Mixed Race, Black/African/African American, Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary