 The Feast of the Goat begins with the return of Urania to her hometown of Santo Domingo , a city which had been renamed Ciudad Trujillo during Trujillo 's time in power . This storyline is largely introspective and deals with Urania 's memories and her inner turmoil over the events preceding her departure from the Dominican Republic thirty @-@ five years earlier . Urania escaped the crumbling Trujillo regime in 1961 by claiming she planned to study under the tutelage of nuns in Michigan . In the following decades , she becomes a prominent and successful New York lawyer . She finally returns to the Dominican Republic in 1996 , on a whim , and finds herself compelled to confront her father and elements of her past she has long ignored . As Urania speaks to her ailing father , Agustin Cabral , she recalls more and more of the anger and disgust that led to her thirty @-@ five years of silence . Urania retells her father 's descent into political disgrace , and the betrayal that forms the crux of both Urania 's storyline and that of Trujillo himself . 
 The Feast of the Goat <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>begins</mark></a> with the return of Urania to her hometown of Santo Domingo , a city which <a href='been_done' title='2'><mark>had</mark></a> been renamed Ciudad Trujillo during Trujillo <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>time in power . This storyline <a href='drop_aux' title='4'><mark>is</mark></a>largely introspective and deals with Urania <a href='null_genetive' title='5'><mark>'s</mark></a>memories and her inner turmoil over the events preceding her departure from the Dominican Republic thirty @-@ five years earlier . Urania escaped the crumbling Trujillo regime in 1961 by claiming she planned to study under the tutelage of nuns in Michigan . In the following decades , she <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>becomes</mark></a> a prominent and successful New York lawyer . She finally <a href='uninflect' title='7'><mark>returns</mark></a> to the Dominican Republic in 1996 , on a whim , and <a href='uninflect' title='8'><mark>finds</mark></a> herself compelled to confront her father and elements of her past she <a href='been_done' title='9'><mark>has</mark></a> long ignored . As Urania <a href='uninflect' title='10'><mark>speaks</mark></a> to her ailing father , Agustin Cabral , she <a href='uninflect' title='11'><mark>recalls</mark></a> more and more of the anger and disgust <a href='null_relcl' title='12'><mark>that</mark></a>led to her thirty @-@ five years of silence . Urania <a href='uninflect' title='13'><mark>retells</mark></a> her father <a href='null_genetive' title='14'><mark>'s</mark></a>descent into political disgrace , and the betrayal <a href='null_relcl' title='15'><mark>that</mark></a><a href='uninflect' title='16'><mark>forms</mark></a> the crux of both Urania <a href='null_genetive' title='17'><mark>'s</mark></a>storyline and that of Trujillo himself . 
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