Juan Rivera is the father who lives in Guayaquil with two brothers and works as a policeman. Lucrecia is the mother who had the author at 16 and lives with him and one brother. The author has five siblings - Javier lives in Santo Domingo and works as a motorcycle taxi driver, Mateo lives with the author and loves music, Pierina lives in Guayaquil and likes parties, and Geanpool also lives in Guayaquil and likes soccer. The author also has many cousins, discussing four of them - Eros studying in Russia, Alison with a dog named Luna, Emily who likes pink and has a dog named Ely who is Luna's son, and