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Gabriella Báez

This is a piece of a puzzle that was left behind when Paola Hernández’s grandmother was evacuated from her home in Puerto Rico to Florida.

Paola Hernández and her daughter Cielo Varona Hernández read in their home. For this family, Hurricane María brought a generational shift. Her great-grandmother and her grandfather died in the aftermath of the storm. But Hernández, 26, was most impacted by the loss of her grandmother who was evacuated from the island to Florida, and is now living with Alzheimer's. Hernández lives in her grandmother 's house and clings to belongings left behind.

Photographs of Rosa Correa’s late mother and father hang in her home in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

Correa Santos’s most valued treasure, her parents' wedding rings, is tucked inside a jewelry box hidden in a drawer at the back corner of her bedroom.

Rosa Correa Santos, whose mother died during the aftermath of Hurricane María, sits in her porch in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

The necklace of the late Ariel Robles that his grandson, Rodrigo Robles, now wears.

The bongos of the late Ariel Robles is among the items cherished by family members in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Talking about his death is still difficult: "Music has been what has saved me," says his widow Carmen Yolanda Medina.

Carmen Yolanda Medina (center) sits with her grandchildren, Rodrigo Robles and Andrea Robles, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. The family patriarch, Ariel Robles, died in a fatal accident a year after the storm, which his widow and grandchildren blame on accumulated anxiety stemming from hardships created by the storm. They spent nearly a year without electricity.

After her husband died, María Lourdes Muñiz Mercado found solace at a nearby Pentecostal church. Here she prepares to go to church with her father Aureliz Muñiz Cabrera in their home in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

Felisha Román Muñiz, 30, floats in the water at Jobos Beach in Isabela, Puerto Rico.