Once her outpatient treatment is complete, her parents send her to visit relatives in Mexico. In addition to medication, she will attend regular counseling sessions and spend a week in an outpatient group therapy setting. She is diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression. Julia wakes up in the hospital, remembering how she slit her wrists the night before. She takes Connor’s comments as a suggestion that they should break up.
Frustrated, he tells her he doesn’t know how to help her. She cries frequently to Connor on the phone.
Julia becomes increasingly depressed and emotional as her mother removes even more of her freedoms. She loves writing and reading, and her English teacher helps her apply to colleges. Julia is anxious to leave Chicago and her parents’ apartment when she graduates. Julia meets a rich white boy named Connor in a bookstore and, when Julia can get out of the house, they begin spending time together. Julia is almost 16 and dreads the whole affair. Regretting that she never gave Olga a quinceañera, Amá decides to spend thousands of dollars they don’t have to throw one for Julia. They drink, party and do drugs to a level that makes Julia feel uncomfortable. Lorena has become best friends with a flamboyantly gay young man who calls himself Juanga. Julia deals with other life changes during this time as well. She launches her own covert investigation, trying to determine whether Olga’s friend Angie or any of her other acquaintances knew anything about a secret boyfriend or girlfriend. While Julia wasn’t close to her sister, she still feels a deep sense of grief and loss. When she does, she often parties with her friend, Lorena. Julia is rarely allowed to leave the house after Olga’s death. But when Julia discovers skimpy underwear, a hotel key and love notes in Olga’s room, she wonders what secrets her sister was keeping. Amá gives Julia even less freedom now that her sister is gone.Įveryone believed Olga was the perfect daughter, one who attended church and community college classes, had no social life and never shamed the family.
They have always been over-protective of her. Her father, Apá, is a worker at a candy factory. Her 22-year-old sister, Olga, was recently hit by a bus and killed. Julia Reyes is a 15-year-old daughter of Mexican immigrants.
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