Chapter 11 Summary

Fe is killed the month of her first wedding anniversary by the new job that bought her long-dreamed-of dishwasher, microwave, Cuisinart and VCR. A year earlier, she married her cousin Casimiro- not in the large fancy wedding she had dreamed of, but in a small, intimate one. Fe was no longer as much of a snob about her family, but she doubted her sisters—one of whom was transparent, one of whom wouldn't touch anyone, much less a man taking her down the aisle, and one of whom never wore anything but the white tunics dona Felicia made her—were pastel chiffon material. In addition, she had discovered, Casimiro had a habit of bleating.

Casimiro descends from a long line of sheepherders, though in the last half-century, like most large ranchers in the territory, his family lost its profits and moved on...