My grandfather is in a nursing home in Brooklyn, and my mother wants me to spend some time with him, since the doctors say that
he doesn't have too long to go now. I don't have much time left of my summer vacation, and there's a stack of books next to my bed I've got to read if I'm going to get into the AP English class I want. —"An Hour with Abuelo,"
Judith Ortiz Cofer