Tita De la Garza Timeline and Summary

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Chapter 1: JANUARY

• We are introduced to Tita as a young babe born on the kitchen table on "a great tide of tears."
• Got milk? Nacha, the cook, nurses Tita.

Chapter 2: FEBRUARY

• Showing strength (or weakness?) Tita and Nacha prepare the cake for Rosaura and Pedro's wedding.
• The cake is cut, the guests eat and start vomiting. Turns out Tita's tears are really, really powerful.

CHAPTER 5: MAY

• In the present again, Mama E and Chencha come into the kitchen; Chencha announces that Roberto has died.
• Freak out. Tita starts screaming and ripping sausages apart and blames Mama E for killing Roberto.
• Dr. Brown is called, finds Tita a hot mess and takes her away in his carriage.

CHAPTER 6: JUNE

• Ch-ch-changes. Tita's not cooking, but watching Dr. Brown make matches in his lab.
• One day, Tita sees smoke coming out of a window at the far end of the patio and thinks of Nacha.
• She goes to investigate and finds an Indian woman who looks like Nacha, making tea.

Chapter 7: JULY

• Tita tells Chencha that she will never go back to the ranch.
• After a group of bandits attacks the ranch and Chencha, Tita is forced to return.

CHAPTER 8: AUGUST

• He put a ring on it. John gives Tita a big ol' diamond.
• After supper, Tita stores the kitchen utensils in the "dark room."
• Sly, sly Pedro comes into the room, extinguishes Tita's lamp, and they get it on.
• Their love-making creates a brilliant glow that the others mistake for Mama E's spirit.

CHAPTER 9: SEPTEMBER

• Tita makes chocolate but all is not well. She may or may not be preggers.
• Gertrudis saves the day. Back at last, she and Tita drink hot chocolate and Tita tells her that their mom is dead.

CHAPTER 10: OCTOBER

• Mama E appears and calls the pair "shameless."
• Two amazing things happen: mom shrinks into a tiny light AND Tita gets her period. Whew.
• The tiny light turns into a fire that burns Pedro and Tita rushes downstairs to help him.

CHAPTER 11: NOVEMBER

• At the table, John asks if Tita's alright and she says in Spanish "John, I think we'd better call it off" (11,775).

CHAPTER 12: DECEMBER

• At the banquet, Pedro asks Tita to marry him and to have his baby.
• Like old times, Pedro and Tita go to the dark room, full of romantic candles.
• How intense is their lovemaking? Well, Pedro dies. Yeah, it's that intense.
• Tita sees Pedro in a tunnel, they climax, and their scorching bodies light the room on fire.