Antonio Navarro

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**Spouses**

* Christina Navarro (first wife) †
* Viviana Navarro (second wife) †

**Children**

* Christina Navarro's six daughters †
* Christina Navarro's son †
* Viviana Navarro's five sons (children)

**Descendants**

* Tomás Navarro (grandson) †
* Ricardo Navarro
* Lily Navarro
* Daniel Navarro † (great-grandchildren)
* Lily's Navarro's son (great-great-grandson)

**Other Relatives**

* Maria Navarro (granddaughter by marriage) †
* Liam (great-grandson by marriage) †

**Antonio Navarro** is a major character and the true antagonist of the 2021 Facebook Watch series *Woman in the Book.* He was the husband of Christina Navarro and later Viviana Navarro, and the great-grandfather of Lily, Ricardo, and Daniel Navarro. Antonio was a well-known book publisher in Mexico during the late 1800s, and presumably used his fortune to build the family's hacienda. However, behind closed doors he abused his wife Christina and killed every daughter she bore him, as he insisted that his family continue with a son.

Christina eventually bore a son, but while they were taking photographs for a family history book, Christina drowned the baby in the lake. An enraged Antonio drowned Christina in the bathtub, using ink to speed up the process, and threw her curandera in the dungeon he would keep Christina in. He later remarried a woman named Viviana and had five sons with her.

He is voiced by Carlos Carerra.

## Physical Appearance

In Lily's dream, Antonio was a larger-built Hispanic man with brown skin, dark-brown eyes, and black hair. Like his grandson Tomás, he had a black handlebar mustache, though his was much bushier. He kept the appearance of a stern businessman, wearing a formal suit and tie and having his hair well-kept.

## Characteristics

To the community, Antonio was a kind and generous man renowned for his publishing business. However, behind closed doors, Antonio was a violent and abusive. His most notable trait was his desperation to have a son; he was so desperate, in fact, that he openly berated his first wife mere moments after she gave birth for having yet another daughter, and killed the six daughters she gave birth to. He had no remorse for any of these actions, even curtly telling Christina that if she gave him a boy, he would let her baby live. Antonio made good on his word when Christina finally had a boy, but quickly flew into a rage when Christina drowned the baby and killed her in retribution.

He was apparently very kind and loving to the sons from his second marriage.

## Background

Antonio lived in rural Mexico during the late 1800's, and was an only son raised in the Navarro hacienda. His father owned slaves that were rebellious, and were killed.

Antonio met and married a woman named Christina, but his obsession with having a son led their marriage to become extremely abusive. He would steal her papers and writing utensils because he believed that her "obsession" with writing was preventing her from bearing a son, and he even hired a curandera to give them a supernatural advantage in conception. Antonio was so intent on having a son that he killed every daughter Christina gave birth to and locked her in a secret dungeon when she wasn't pregnant. Christina eventually gave birth to a son, but while they were taking family portraits one afternoon for a family history book Antonio was publishing, Christina took advantage of his distraction and drowned the baby in the lake. Enraged, Antonio drowned her in the bathtub, filling the water with ink in order to speed up the process.

Mere moments after he murdered Christina, Antonio went to fetch the history book and found that The Curandera had finished the book, but put images of Christina inside. Despite her protests, he threw the book in the fire and became enraged when the book did not burn. He learned that The Curandera had put a protection spell on it, and bound Christina's soul to the book so she would never truly die. This further angered Antonio, and he dragged the old woman to the secret dungeon, where he chained her up as she spat on him and cursed his family name.

Some time after he murdered Christina, Antonio married a woman named Viviana, who bore him five sons. He spread the rumor that Christina went mad and killed herself, which would be believed by the townspeople and future generations until the truth was discovered in 2021.

## Woman in the Book

### El Libro

Antonio is mentioned by Lily when she is telling Daniel about their family's history, and is pictured on the family wall at a large printing press.

### Seis Niñas Muertas

Antonio is featured in Lily's dream, where she is in the place of his wife Christina giving birth to her sixth daughter. Antonio is disgusted when he learns he us the father of yet another girl and berates Christina, calling her a waste of a woman before taking the infant out of the room, presumably to her death.

### Secretos de los Muertos

Antonio is mentioned when Juana Salazar tells the siblings about their great-grandmother, Viviana, and how she bore Antonio five sons, whom he adored. She said that Antonio was a kind an loving father, but was then killed by The Woman before she could finish.

Antonio then appears in another vision of Lily's while she is kneeling over the graves of Christina Navarro's six daughters. Antonio drags Christina out of the graveyard and into a secret prison cell in the hacienda library. As he chains her up, Christina yells that Antonio murdered her daughters. Antonio then tells her coldly to "give (him) a boy, and (he'll) let it live" before leaving his sobbing wife in the cell.

### Poesía de Sangre

While in the secret dungeon, Lily has another vision of the past. Antonio returns from a small hunting exercise to find Christina writing in her room. He angrily balls up the paper she's using and shoves it in her mouth, pushing her onto the floor before tearing up the rest of her work. He proclaims that Christina's "obsession" with writing is the reason she can not have a son and confiscates her ink so she can't write. Some time later, Antonio is present for a ritual performed by The Curandera. He appears to become bored with it quite quickly and leaves halfway through.

## Relationships

### Christina Navarro

Christina was Antonio's first wife. Antonio's obsession with having a son caused him to violently abuse his wife; he forbade her from writing because he believed her passion for the art was the reason she wouldn't have a son, locked her in a dungeon while she wasn't pregnant, and even killed the daughters she gave birth to. When Christina finally had a son, she drowned it in defiance, enraging Antonio to the point where he killed her in retribution.

### Viviana Navarro

Vivana was Antonio's second wife. The nature of their marriage is unknown, but it can be inferred that he was kinder to her as she gave him five sons, who he was very loving towards.

## Victims

### List of Victims

 **The Curandera** | Locked her in the secret dungeon and left her to die. She died of natural causes.

## References

1. ↑ *Woman in the Book*, Episode 1, "El LIbro". Gonzalez Szigriszt, Eva and Garcia Rooney, Pamela (writers) & Moreno King, Jeanette (director) (June 4th, 2021)
2. ↑ *Woman in the Book*, Episode 2, "Seis Niñas Muertas". Gonzalez Szigriszt, Eva and Garcia Rooney, Pamela (writers) & Moreno King, Jeanette (director) (June 11th, 2021)
3. ↑ *Woman in the Book*, Episode 3, "Secretos de los Muertos". Gonzalez Szigriszt, Eva and Garcia Rooney, Pamela (writers) & Moreno King, Jeanette (director) (June 18th, 2021)
4. ↑ *Woman in the Book*, Episode 5, "Poesía de Sangre". Gonzalez Szigriszt, Eva and Garcia Rooney, Pamela (writers) & Moreno King, Jeanette (director) (July 2nd, 2021)
5. ↑ *Woman in the Book*, Episode 8, "Contracción". Gonzalez Szigriszt, Eva and Garcia Rooney, Pamela (writers) & Jeanne, Jeanette (director) (July 23rd, 2021)
6. ↑ *Woman in the Book*, Episode 9, "La Prensa Impresa". Gonzalez Szigriszt, Eva and Garcia Rooney, Pamela (writers) & Jeanne, Jeanette (director) (July 30th, 2021)