This chapter offers an interpretation of the short story “Negocios” by Dominican-American author Junot Díaz, included in his collection Drown (1999). In this story, the central figure of “Papi,” a womanizing, often absent, migrant Dominican father, redefines his relationship to family—attributed respectively to the biological family, the nation, work, and desire—through a series of masculinist actions that allow him to access a particular sense of masculinity and latinidad. His self-figuration, which causes various crises in his biological family unit, becomes a necessary reification and embodiment through and against which his wives and children claim their own identities.