Summary

Page 98 switches to Camino’s perspective, with the subtitle, “Five Days After” (98). Camino describes how her father was missing the tip of a finger after he sliced it from a machete cutting mangos for Camino. She also describes how his skin where the nail used to be was the same color as the chess piece her father used to try to teach her chess, but she kept including her Barbies. On page 100 she repeats italicized, “No hay sobrevivientes” twice in Spanish, once in English, meaning “no survivors” (100). Tia hugs her while neighbors come over and they start chanting the rosary. Camino describes how her parents met and it was love at first sight. When her mother got the dengue fever, Tia and Camino tried to take care of her, since she would not go to the hospital because an ambulance was too expensive...