Tìa Isa wants a car

Tia Isa wants a car but she does not have enough money. Her niece finds many ways to make money and give it to her aunt. Together the two have enough to buy an old, big car, a car big enough to hold the entire family when they are all reunited again in the United States.

“Tia Isa wants a car.

She tells me after work when she still smells of lemon pies from the bakery.

She is turning the jump rope that's tied to the fence and I am already up to twenty.

‘Un pisicorre,' she says, ‘to take us to the beach!'

‘Really? The beach' I can't catch my breath.

No one goes far from my block in the summer. But a beach has foamy water that reaches all the places I cannot go.

‘Si, really. Let's save.'