In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and
support. In this companion-in-verse Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence of a
woman he could always count on-to give him warm hugs and ear kisses to teach him precious
words in Spanish to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he
wanted and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by
violence and dysfunction Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene Texas offered Rex the
possibility of home and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life. Abuela Don't Forget
Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when
he didn't yet know how to believe in himself.
