[Book Plot Summary]
Chapter 7
Clara and the gang escape back to the capital, Jaime’s in med school now, Nicolas is searching for his identity, and Blanca is pregnant
Bitches is always in and out the house it’s just like weird
Jaime tells Esteban that Blanca is pregnant, who then snatches Jean and is like you’re marrying Blanca to avoid a scandal
Esteban moves back in to the house and all hell breaks loose. He then tells Blanca he killed Pedro Tercero García
Blanca and Jean get married and move away, but Clara tells Blanca that Pedro is def still alive. She and Blanca keep in consistent touch
Nicolas got into dancing, building hot air balloons, and being weird. He had this punk rock girlfriend named Amanda who had a 5 year old brother named Miguel, who for a period lived with them
Jaime is a reclusive medical student and is in love with Amanda because why not
Esteban Trueba became a senator since the maldita Conservative Party won
Meanwhile, Pedro Tercero was depressed, but Father José Dulce Maria with his lit ass got him out of it. Tercero learned how to play music again and actually became v big in radio and shit and moved to the capital
Jaime and Tercero kick it at these Thursday socialist meetings which sound lit than a mf
Nicolas looks up from his antics and realizes Amanda is gone. He visits her and realizes she’s poor AND pregnant. She says he’s too immature for her, but wants Jaime to give her an abortion
Jaime literally googles how to give an abortion and does it successfully
Jaime and Amanda get closer and Esteban Trueba sees a doctor for his shrinking condition and returns, but is still an asshole unfortunately
Chapter 8
Blanca and Jean have a lowkey wedding and honeymoon where they’re honestly friends more than they are married tbh. Like hoes be sleeping on opposite sides of the bed and everything
They move to this desert region in the north and get this decadent ass house
They have a bunch of indigenous house workers that shade Blanca and put lizards in her food
Blanca finds them expressionless and annoying
She saw one house worker wearing French heels and was like “wut”
Jean was horrible with money and literally has niggas at his door waiting in vain for checks
Blanca’s super pregnant btw
Jean gets into selling indigenous artifacts which is dumb illegal, but coloziners...
Jean eventually finds mummies which are valuable, but creep Blanca out since she thinks she’s being haunted
She breaks into Jean’s photography studio and instead of seeing mummies she sees erotic pics of her indigenous house workers and escapes to the train station wanting to leave this nigga forever
Chapter 9
Blanca’s daughter Alba was born feet first and was said to be lucky boots
She was a solitary and quiet girl, preferring solitary plays in the basement or paintings animals a la Rosa/Blanca over hanging out with people her age
She was the one person Esteban Trueba liked and would play with. She was close to Clara, fascinated with Jaime’s profession, and subjected to Nicolas’ teachings around minimizing pain
Blanca was beautiful and dated hoes, but eventually got back with Pedro Tercero but refused to ever move in with him and abandon her privilege despite his success as a singer and Alba’s confirmation of his existence
Alba met Esteban García and a horrible sexual scene ensued despite her being 6 and his being a young man
García got Trueba’s blessing to do police school
Clara was over life and decided to die on Alba’s 7th birthday, an event leaving Alba serene amidst the pain and loss
Chapter 10
They finally buried Nivea’s head which wtf
Alba was calm and found solace in being able to keep in touch with her grandmother even in death
The house highkey fell apart, niggas left and everything started dying
Bitches ate chickpeas and rice pudding for every ass meal
Jaime and Nicolas lost all interest in the tings
Nicolas became a millennial knowledge guru based on borrowed knowledge from India and profited on it. Eventually, he convinced Alba to shave her head and Esteban was pissed
Nicholas later had a naked protest which literally gave Esteban a heart attack
Alba went to an English school and was weird
Blanca became a servant basically and was reliant on Esteban Trueba for coin and used to make animal sculptures with Mongolian kids with disabilities—or not, honestly they used mad slurs to describe these kids and I was shook
Esteban and Jaime grave rob Rosa’s body which disintegrates
Tres Marias was falling under and Esteban’s hysteria around political uprising made him not be taken seriously
Esteban has sex with Tránsito Soto and the brothel was more prosperous. Ugh I don’t care lol
Chapter 11
Alba’s in love with Miguel (Amanda’s son) and is a student at university and performatively cares about social justice
She, Miguel, Sebastian Gomez, Ana Diaz, and other hoes join a protest, sit-in thing to demand worker’s rights
Alba gets her period, gets super sick, and has to surrender
Esteban García is a policeman that intercepts her and everyone’s pissed to find out she’s Trueba’s granddaughter
Alba’s sick for a few days and recalls her 14th birthday where Esteban García forcibly kissed her and tried to choke her
Miguel got over Alba’s secret and they started fuckin like rabbits. He’s a leftist radical and might join the guerrillas and doesn’t want Alba in that bullshit
Jaime and Alba were on the same side of things politically, but Jaime heavily disliked extremism
Jaime is friends with the future president
Jaime reunites with Amanda (after finally meeting Miguel) who suffered from drug addiction and recuperates her
Chapter 12
The socialists won and niggas was hype
Alba’s fake ass joins the processions
The rich took they shit and bounced and tried to put they money elsewhere
The conservatives execute an economic sabotage
Pedro Tercero gets a desk job and is sad about it; he and Blanca fall out after, yet again, she refuses to marry him, but this time he takes it seriously and doesn’t talk to her for 2 years
And, with that, Blanca somehow became less interesting
Niggas had nothing cuz all the stores were empty and the lines were hella long
Blanca started getting items off the black market and just keeping them for no reason; Alba would snatch some and give them to Miguel who gave them to the girls
Esteban orders dumb weapons and Jaime and Alba snatch them and bury them
Alba makes weird incestuous comments and Jaime has weird incestuous thoughts wishing he was Miguel
Tres Marias organized and reclaimed their time
Esteban came to Tres Marias with a machine gun thinking it would do something and he was immediately taken hostage
Bitches kikied and didn’t care, but Blanca ass decided to save him with Tercero
Oh, and Alba found out Tercero was her dad and it was super unceremonious
Tercero saves Trueba but like why. Girl idk who cares, when is this book over lmao
Alba started working at the hospital with Jaime which, again, don’t care
Luisa Mora (the first time she got an actual name) rolls up and was like “you in danger girl” to Alba and it’s implied horrible things finna happen. She tried to tell Esteban to send Alba abroad, but like niggas...so.
Chapter 13
The military staged a coup and gooped the conservatives into thinking they cared about them
Jaime was murdered in a gruesome ass way while coming to the aid of the president
The city was in ruin and an oppressive curfew took over and hoes were going missing
Food came back to the stores, but bitches was too broke
Esteban began to regret his bullshit involvement with this party
Alba started hiding hoes in her house and sneaking bitches into asylum
The rich tried to pretend a little dictatorship was fine to “restore order”
Esteban returned to Tres Marias and literally burned it to the ground rendering bitches homeless. GOD he’s such a FUCKING Asshole
Nigga had the nerve to say he felt bad like bitch SHUT UP
The poet died and the girls grieved. But also like WHOM?!
Blanca admitted she was hiding Tercero in their house on the low
Blanca and Tercero lived in exile in Canada and Trueba had a moment of decency, but oh wait, Pancha García, so yeah...that nigga is STILL garbage
Miguel resurrected out of the blue and Alba helped him get weapons
Alba started selling everything cuz nothing matters and lowkey got clockt for selling all of Trueba’s weapons
Alba got kidnapped for being with a guerrilla and dumped ominously in front of Esteban García
Chapter 14
Alba was relentlessly tortured by the hands of Esteban García and his goons. She suffered immensely under the conviction of hiding where Miguel was
During this, she reunited with Ana Diaz who also suffered heinous loss and was a huge support to Alba
On the brink of death, Alba was visited by Clara who told her to live and do the tings
Esteban visits Transito Soto, now a super successful hotel owner, and pleas for her to rescue Alba
Epilogue
Esteban finally died thank God
Alba is by his side and regales how she lost her three fingers (a la Tercero) and was sent to a clinic with this nice nurse named Rojas, then was later sent to a concentration camp for women that was healing and bae, and then escaped to this poor area and was rescued by a short dark woman they never bothered giving a name to. She now tells this to Esteban who’s sad, but still a rapist so like where is the justice
They clean the house blah blah blah
Clara rolls up and helps Esteban die peacefully, UGHHHHHHH FUCK THIS BOOK
Alba talmbout how Clara helped her rewrite the tings and discontinue the cycle of hate and that her job is to wait for Miguel, who specifically asked her NOT to wait for him and whose schedule is capricious at best
She’s pregnant now which omg this is too much
Barrabas came to us by sea...?
[Book Thoughts and Feelings]
Blanca fake af for not being with Pedro Tercero like what
Who the FUCK is the poet?!
Alba’s game-like approach to justice and her motivations being for a boy are just so tired
Blanca being unwilling to downsize when she’s clearly broke after the election is telling
Why the FUCK did they save Esteban Trueba’s dumb ass
WHY is this nigga alive like the whole goddamn book?!
Gurl this revolution I guess lmao
The racism...like everywhere
Bruh how Alba found out Tercero was her dad lmaoooo
Where TF is Nicolas?!
Gross that Esteban is dying peacefully like wtf is this
Barrabas being back in the room as a rug while Esteban dies peacefully is literally patriarchy
GOD I HATE THIS GODDAMN BOOK