set in the summer of 1960s the novel has ninita as its main character based on the story nanita's Eyes widened at the sight of Nana Dora's deep fried caramelized bananas her behavior seems like that of just another 12 year old girl nanita believes in the myth of banana heart which she believed could do a piece the hunger of her family as told by Nana Dora herself being the eldest she tries to compensate for her father's being jobless but she gets her Mother's Rage in return even for a simple mistake which meaning considers as a sign of herlihi as she is conceiving her seventh child nanita Witnesses the latest Wares of the calcium man the latest duet between the local Patrick line Miss Vivi and Roy Orbison or mangosteen manolito Ching's perfect hair her father