my grandmother and my great-
grandmother. The adults each had
their own foam mattresses, and
there was one big one that we’d roll
out into the middle, and the kids
slept on that.
We had two shanties in the
backyard that my grandmother
would rent out to migrants and
seasonal workers. We had a small
peach tree in a tiny patch on one
side of the house and on the other
side my grandmother had a
driveway. I never understood why
my grandmother had a driveway.
She didn’t have a car. She didn’t
know how to drive. Yet she had a