Anita is confused-she thought that everyone loved El Jefe.Ī few days later, the American consul, Mr.
She finally tells Anita that they live under a dictator, El Jefe, whom nobody likes, and that the SIM are after their missing uncle, Tío Toni. Nobody will tell Anita anything-Anita’s older sister Lucinda says that nobody will talk because the SIM might be listening. Over the next few days, the SIM agents’ cars stay parked outside. The next morning, SIM (the Dominican secret police) agents search Anita’s house for Carla’s family but they don’t find anything. Lots of Anita’s family members have left recently-now, Anita’s nuclear family (and their Haitian maid, Chucha) are the only ones left at the family compound. Tía Laura, Carla, and the rest of Anita’s cousins flee from the Dominican Republic to New York. Just before Thanksgiving in 1960, 11-year-old Anita’s life turns upside down.
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