Throughout the video “Racial Justice Reads”, we are given excerpts of the books Fairest, Ordinary Girls, and Heavy by their respected authors.  All of the excerpts give insight and a taste of what each respected book would bring to the table. Something that stuck to me was the excerpt for Ordinary Girls, in which Jaquira Díaz, reads from the first chapter. The excerpt depicts the time Jaquira Díaz’s hair was cut short by the hands of her grandmother, Mercy, due to her having “bad hair” (9:22). The way Mercy treated Jaquira Díaz pissed me off and when Mercy blamed her bad hair on Jaquira Díaz’s father and his black family made me realize how lucky I am, coming from a Hispanic family I’ve never experienced. The book review I chose helped me gain further insight into Ordinary Girls and what Jaquira Díaz would go into later on in life. The reason I’m choosing to read Ordinary Girls is mostly because of my Hispanic background, I know ill be able to relate to this book because of it. When reading “La Otra” I already felt myself relating to Jaquira Díaz as my expectation and interest grew. I want to read about her uprising in a Hispanic household with a white mother, did she struggle to balance being Hispanic and American? Did her grandmother accept her later on in life? Something I’m expecting is to know how did Jaquira Díaz find her footing with her family and life in general, how did she overcome and figure who she is as a person, how did she grow?