Don Pepe Character Analysis

Don Pepe is Nayeli's father. He used to be the only policeman in Tres Camarones, and he adored his daughter. He enrolled her in karate so that she'd learn how to take care of herself, though Nayeli believes that he desperately wanted a son. Three years before the start of the novel, Don Pepe left Tres Camarones to take a job in Kankakee, Illinois. Though he began by sending money home, after he sent a final postcard, he stopped writing entirely. Nayeli idolizes her father and thinks that he'll surely agree to come back to Tres Camarones once he sees Nayeli again. However, when Nayeli finally tracks him down in Kankakee, she learns that he has a wife or girlfriend and a toddler. She decides not to confront him, but she leaves the postcard tucked under his truck's windshield wiper for him to find.