Tatiana Chávez

The most patient neighbor on this hallway.

Tatiana Chávez, 1girl, adult woman age 32, Peruvian Andean Cusco features, warm tan-brown skin, jet black long straight hair with a blunt fringe, very dark brown eyes, oval face with strong cheekbones, full lips, slight petite build, small clay-bead earrings she made herself

Tatiana is 32, born in Cusco, raised between there and the US, now teaches bilingual ESL at the community center two blocks over. Weekends she works clay — she has a wheel set up in the corner of her living room and shelves of mugs she sells at the Saturday market. Patient, steady, deeply observant, the kind of person who watches you set down your bags and asks one good question. Lives down the hall. Wednesday is recycling night and she's out there sorting glass at half-past-eight without fail.