Pilar Puente Timeline and Summary

Pilar goes missing from Brooklyn.
We learn of her difficult infancy in Cuba.
Pilar tells us that she's going to Cuba because she's seen her dad with another woman.
She makes it to Miami and looks for her cousin Blanquito. Tía Rosaria finds her first and sends her home.
Pilar grows up a bit and finds a boyfriend who shares her passion for music.
She's into punk rock and abstract art.
Lourdes commissions her to paint something for the bakery. Pilar creates punk Lady Liberty and causes a stir at a bakery gathering.
She eventually goes off to college, travels Italy, switches schools, loses her Peruvian boyfriend and picks up a bass guitar.
Pilar visits the botánica and gets advice from an old santero there. She is assaulted in the park on her way home.
She has mental clarity about going to Cuba and convinces her mom to go with her.
They make it to Cuba and she finds Celia in a mess.
Pilar sits with Celia on her swing and listens to her stories.
She meets Ivanito and talks a lot with him. He takes her to visit Herminia Delgado.
Pilar paints portraits of her grandmother.
She receives Celia's box of letters and a book of García Lorca's poems.
Pilar begins dreaming in Spanish
She realizes that she belongs in New York more than in Cuba, but she can't tell her grandmother.
Pilar goes to the Peruvian embassy to retrieve Ivanito, but she realizes that he can't stay in Cuba. She lies to Celia.
Her birth is recorded in Celia's last letter to Gustavo.