This is a companion volume to Mario Vargas Llosa's Feast of the Goat. Set in Santo Domingo during the Trujillo rule and after, and in New Jersey among Dominican emigrants, the 'diaspora', after Trujillo's death by assassination. The killing brought no luck to the assassins, including way up to the top of the command chain. Why else did JFK get killed but for the curse of Trujillo? (The word for the curse cannot be written here, it goes against zoo rules.)