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Nancy “Blanca” Saldivia
Vera is Blanca’s aunt. She left Spanish Harlem many years ago to move to Miami with her rich Cuban husband, John Vidal. Like John Vidal, Vera tries to mask her Latinx heritage by changing her name from “Veronica” to “Vera,” dyeing her hair blonde, and pretending that she comes from money. The plot revolves around Bodega’s infatuation with Vera since their youth. Bodega attempts to lure Vera back to Spanish Harlem for himself, but he doesn’t realize that Vera is secretly in love with Nazario. Vera plots to (and succeeds in) killing both her husband and Bodega so that she and Nazario can be together and surreptitiously take over Bodega’s property fortune.
Veronica “Vera” Vidal Quotes in Bodega Dreams
The Bodega Dreams quotes below are all either spoken by Veronica “Vera” Vidal or refer to Veronica “Vera” Vidal . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 2, Round 2
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No wonder Bodega’s name had spread like a good smell from a Latin woman’s kitchen.
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Book 2, Round 4
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With her light skin, semiblond hair, pale seagull blue eyes, she could easily pass herself off as something other than a woman born and raised in East Harlem. She spoke as if she had spent her formative years in some boarding school, walking around with a big lettered sweater tied around her shoulders.
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“I’ll buy her one bigger than that! One with a diamond as big as the Palladium.”
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Book 2, Round 10
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I would never have guessed he was Latin. He was more American than Mickey Mouse and just as old.
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Veronica “Vera” Vidal Quotes in Bodega Dreams
The Bodega Dreams quotes below are all either spoken by Veronica “Vera” Vidal or refer to Veronica “Vera” Vidal . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 2, Round 2
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No wonder Bodega’s name had spread like a good smell from a Latin woman’s kitchen.
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Book 2, Round 4
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With her light skin, semiblond hair, pale seagull blue eyes, she could easily pass herself off as something other than a woman born and raised in East Harlem. She spoke as if she had spent her formative years in some boarding school, walking around with a big lettered sweater tied around her shoulders.
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“I’ll buy her one bigger than that! One with a diamond as big as the Palladium.”
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Book 2, Round 10
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I would never have guessed he was Latin. He was more American than Mickey Mouse and just as old.
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