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Part 1, 1989-1972, Antojos

• The novel opens with Yolanda returning to the Dominican Republic after five years in the United States.

• A party is being thrown in her honor.

• Yolanda's aunts all wear gray and black, the colors of mourning.

• The cousins are shocked at Yolanda's appearance, and she is compared to her cousin Lucinda who looks like a Dominican magazine model.

• They aunts are telling stories too, but their stories all involve a servant or chauffeur, giving the impression that they are wealthy.

• The cake has candles for each of the cities on the island where the relatives live and the children fight over which city they will eat.

• Yolanda tells the aunts she wants to take a drive in the country to find some guavas.

• The aunts are shocked and warn her that women do not drive alone on the Island.

• Yolanda is secretly thinking of staying...

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