Allison Cay Parker was a longtime editor at Other Voices magazine and Other Voices Books, as well as at the 1990s literary magazine Fish Stories. She now writes regularly about immigration, ethnicity, and global economics. She is also an award-winning food writer whose work has been anthologized in Best Food Writing and published frequently in Leite's Culinaria.
I guess I was somewhat relieved that my aunt realized she wouldn’t survive another day in her apartment, and I cautiously believed that she did want to live, at least for the next ninety days.