My grandfather was a saint. Patient, loving, kind, and hard-working. He was always supportive of my grandmother and mother, two very determined women. Plus, he would do anything he had to do help his family. In my February 2022 release The Family She Never Met there’s a scene where the heroine is speaking to her father about how to feed her family and keep a roof over their heads. During that scene you find out that her father had lied about his age in order to get a job to help the family.
That’s just one of my family’s true stories woven into the fictional tale in The Family She Never Met. My grandfather shaved a decade off his age so he could get a job and help out our family. My granddad was already retirement age when we came here, but he instead worked at one of the maintenance services at LaGuardia Airport. One of my childhood memories is of driving with my mom or dad to pick him up at work.
This picture is from an ID card for a medical clinic in Cuba.
