 All of the novel 's storylines concern memory in some sense or another . The most apparent confrontation of memory is on the part of Urania Cabral , who has returned to the Dominican Republic for the first time in 30 years , and is forced to confront her father and the traumas that led her to leave the country at 14 . She was the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of the dictator himself , a sacrifice her father made to try to gain favor with the dictator again , a fact to which she alludes throughout the book , but which is only revealed at the very end : the book concludes with her recounting the memory of that night to her aunt and cousins , who never knew the true reason she left the country . When her aunt is surprised that she remembers all these details , she responds that while she forgets many things , " I remember everything about that night . " For Urania , forgetting the atrocities committed by the regime is unacceptable . Her father , on the other hand , is not capable of joining her in this process of remembering , since he has suffered a stroke and is not capable of speaking ; however , Urania is angry that he chose to forget these things while he was still capable of acknowledging them . 
 All of the novel <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>storylines concern memory in some sense or another . The most apparent confrontation of memory is on the part of Urania Cabral , <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>who</mark></a><a href='been_done' title='3'><mark>has</mark></a> returned to the Dominican Republic for the first time in 30 years , and is forced to confront her father and the traumas <a href='null_relcl' title='4'><mark>that</mark></a>led her to leave the country at 14 . She was the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of the dictator himself , a sacrifice her father made to try to gain favor with the dictator again , a fact to which she <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>alludes</mark></a> throughout the book , but which is only revealed at the very end : the book <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>concludes</mark></a> with her recounting the memory of that night to her aunt and cousins , <a href='null_relcl' title='7'><mark>who</mark></a>never knew the true reason she left the country . When her aunt <a href='drop_aux' title='8'><mark>is</mark></a>surprised that she <a href='uninflect' title='9'><mark>remembers</mark></a> all these details , she <a href='uninflect' title='10'><mark>responds</mark></a> that while she <a href='uninflect' title='11'><mark>forgets</mark></a> many things , " I remember everything about that night . " For Urania , forgetting the atrocities committed by the regime <a href='drop_aux' title='12'><mark>is</mark></a>unacceptable . Her father , on the other hand , <a href='negative_concord' title='13'><mark>is</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='14'><mark>not</mark></a>capable of joining her in this process of remembering , since he <a href='been_done' title='15'><mark>has</mark></a> suffered a stroke and <a href='negative_concord' title='16'><mark>is</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='17'><mark>not</mark></a>capable of speaking ; however , Urania is angry that he chose to forget these things while he was still capable of acknowledging them . 
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