How My Grandmother's Life Shaped My First Book by Sonia Gomez, author of Picture Bride, War Bride

How My Grandmother's Life Shaped My First Book by Sonia Gomez, author of Picture Bride, War Bride

When she died in 1991, my grandmother left me an oak desk, but I wouldn’t know this until decades later. Her demise came swiftly, and so did the unraveling of our family. I watched my mom and her sisters fall apart. Their wails frightened me, as did their fighting. Moments after she took her last breath, I heard one sister say, “What am I going to do without her?” as she collapsed into another’s arm. I was eleven and didn’t yet have the language…