Her aunt and cousins also assemble at the house and chastise her for breaking ties with her family.Īlternating chapters tell the story of 70-year-old Rafael Trujillo (also known as El Chivo, The Goat) and the day of his assassination in 1961. When she makes her way to her father, now a nonresponsive and bedridden invalid, she talks at him about the horrors of the regime as she has come to understand them, wondering aloud how much he knew and how complicit he was in those horrors. She graduated from Harvard Law and currently works as a lawyer for the World Bank, spending her time exercising, working, and reading about the Trujillo Era. She broke off contact with her Dominican relatives when she left for a Catholic school in the United States, at age 14, in 1961. Urania Cabral returns to the Dominican Republic in 1996 after her father, a former official in the Trujillo government, falls ill.
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