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Minerva refuses.
Minerva's father dies. But at least he won't be cheating on Minerva's mother anymore!
Minerva goes to law school but finds out when she graduates that she is not permitted to get a license to practice law. She speculates Trujillo is still upset that she didn't let him bang her.
A lot of this book is written in diary form which is tedious as most of the diary entries are not very interesting, like sketches of the layout of a house or common every day occurrences. In Maria Teresa's diary she writes that a communist came by to deliver guns for the revolution, and she realizes that Minerva is a member of a violent communist faction. Marie Teresa loves communism and she joins too, as does Patria. Only Dede does not immediately join.
Click here to see the rest of this reviewSo Patria married a guy named Pedrito. Patria loves Fidel Castro. She wishes his brand of authoritarian communism was crushing people in the Dominican Republic. When Castro took control of Cuba, Patria was so excited that she had wild sex with Pedrito and he impregnated her with a child they named Raul, after Raul Castro.
At this point it's hard to have any sympathy for the sisters since they are such hardcore communists.
Pedrito is upset that Patria wants to be a communist terrorist. He says she is putting the family in danger. Patria lets him squirt some more in her communist v_gina and uses sex to persuade him to join the revolution.
The sisters try to persuade Dede, the last holdout sister, to become a communist terrorist. But Dede's husband Jaimito is against it.
Dede decides she will leave Jaimito to become a communist. Only she doesn't really leave him. They have some sex (squirt! squirt! squirt!) and make up. But Dede still becomes a communist.
The police come and find their buried weapons, and their plans to create a violent communist revolution. Patria, Marie Teresa, and Minerva are arrested along with some of their cuckold husbands.
Dede, the only one still free, prayed a lot to God. A large part of the rest of the book features the sisters praying to God. "Save me, God, Save me!" They pray, over and over and over and over for many, many pages of the book. But God isn't listening. Maybe God doesn't want to hear the prayers of communist terrorists who are planning to kill people to overthrow the government.
This is the most annoying part of this book. Minerva and the other sisters act like martyrs, like they are saints.
They're not.
They were communist terrorists who were planning to kill their opponents with guns. But they acted hypocritically, like they were so pure and being persecuted for no reason.
Most of the rest of the book features Minerva, Patria, and Mate (Marie Teresa) whining in their jail cells, or their extended family whining about them being in prison. Not a lot happens.
Only one thing of note happens. Marie Teresa notices she stops bleeding from her v_gina.
