For the very first session of the book club, we were instructed to read until page 62 of Ordinary Girls. These 62 pages include the book’s preface titled ‘Girlhood’ and three-fourths of part one: Motherland. This part of the book is an introduction to readers as Jaquira Diaz introduces characters such her brother,mother,father,and grandmother on both sides of the family. She also sets up her childhood home and the community around it and how everyone there treats each other almost like family (pg 41). Telling the reader this, i feel is important as it really allows for readers of Spanish or Hispanic background to be able to relate to her childhood growing up. For me, coming from a Hispanic background myself, this sort of community was common, everyone who lived in the same apartment or neighbor always looked out for each other. People gave each other food if someone made too much, invited families over for dinner, and even brought all the kids ice cream during a summer day. Seeing Jaquira implement and tell the reader about her community really helps me to connect to the story even more and helps me better picture her childhood in my own eyes. However for the majority of the reading in these first early chapters we see Jaquira Diaz’s relationship with her father and how much she loved him. Very early on we can see why exactly she loves him so much as he taught her things that she’d cherish (pg 24). He was her role model and someone she looked up to for his rich story telling and knowledge of history. While I myself cannot relate to looking up so much to a father figure, it still captives me by how much she wanted to just like him. The reasoning for this is because it gives me insight into a feeling I will never truly relate to myself but allows me a peak at how it feels like to look up to a father figure so much.