Chapter 13 Summary

Fe's death has been particularly hard for Domingo and Sofi, who personally fought the battle with Fe and lost. After Fe's death, Domingo takes up his old cockfighting habit again and loses the house in a bet to a judge. The house was passed down to Sofi from her grandfather, and then her parents; she was born and raised in it, and gave birth to her daughters in it, but because of community property laws, Domingo was able to sign it away. This is the last straw for Sofi, who suddenly remembers it was she who had made Domingo leave twenty years ago. She did not divorce him then because she was afraid of being excommunicated and even more afraid of her mother, who to Sofi embodied the Church. Now Sofi's mother is dead and, having little left to lose, serves Domingo with...