kassandra gutierrez’s Reviews > I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter > Status Update

Julia decided to go through her sisters things again to find any last clues. She successfully logs into her laptop and reads through her emails. She finds the answer to the previous hotel key & lingerie...Olga was involved with a married man who strung her along for years as to why she’s been in community colleges 4+years.

Julia has to spent the next couple of days in the hospital for observation and attend therapy alone and w/ group of teenagers. Julia’s parents are talking about her going to Mexico as if that will “fix her”. She fears that she will miss out on a lot of school and won’t be able to go to a good college if her parents make her go.

Julia’s mother decided to “ransack” her bedroom and tears up all her journals. Julia has no clue how she going to make it to graduation without losing it locked up in her bedroom all day. Instead of going straight home after school Julia decided to skip and the following morning wakes up the hospital on intent of trying to take her life.

Julia really likes Connor and they’ve been seeing each other. Julia has managed to get into her sisters bedroom which has been locked up for months now where she got Olga’s laptop, lingerie, and hotel key to try to find out what her sister was hiding. Although Julia’s mother was in her bedroom and now thinks those “impure” items are hers.

Julia goes to a bookstore after school in which she has a total of 17 dollars to spend in which she saved from passed lunches. She meets a guy.. Connor. He invites her out for coffee after the bookstore. She accepts.

Julia is now a senior. She spend all summer helping her mother clean houses and managed to save some money which she plan to use to leave Chicago. While Mr. Ingman is helping her fill out her college apps and write her college essay.

Julia managed to get one of her sisters mutuals number to see if she can find out anything. Julia is very dubious on her sisters career in regards to why has it took Olga multiple years to achieve an associate degree. Has she been lying?

Julia is surprised that her mom is letting her go to the school dance “no dates though”, she decides to go with a group of girls. Partially because she wants to go to the after party that she hopes will help her find out some more about her sister & the hotel key.

Lorena has convinced Julia to come along to a party with her. Now it is just a matter of convincing her mom by letting her go.. saying she is going on a school trip instead.

Julia goes to her uncles house because her cousin victor is turning 7. Although Julia thinks this party is just an excuse for her uncle to get drunk.