She’s also struggled with feeling like she’s not the daughter her mother wanted, and has been grappling with secrets of her father’s that she discovered a year prior to his death. Yahaira lives in NYC and has a passion for chess I didn’t realize there was queer rep in this book and was so pleasantly surprised that Yahaira was queer! I particularly appreciated that her queerness and her girlfriend were not treated as a “problem” of the story. Yahaira and Camino both felt so real and were such distinctly formed characters. I love that this novel deals heavily with reconciling love, loss, and betrayal–and how to move forward when that betrayal comes from someone you never thought would hurt you. Themes of sisterhood and the question of what makes someone family run throughout both Yahaira and Camino’s perspectives. The verse format makes this a quick read, but the author gives the story the space that it deserves. The flow of the verses mirror the flow of grief as it surrounds Yahaira and Camino. Like her debut novel The Poet X, Clap When You Land is a YA contemporary written in verse and showcases Acevedo’s powerful use of voice and structure. Will discovering each other’s existence break or save them both?Ĭlap When You Land is just as stunning and moving as Elizabeth Acevedo’s previous novels. When their father dies suddenly in a plane crash, Yahaira and Camino are overcome with grief and devastation. Camino lives for the summers when her father visits, wishing she could go live with him in NYC Yahaira spends the summer missing her father while he visits the DR, but knowing he’ll return come fall.
The two girls have never met and know nothing of each other’s existence, but they share something in common: a father. Yahaira and Camino are two teen girls living vastly different lives–Yahaira in New York City, Camino in the Dominican Republic. Separated by distance-and Papi's secrets-the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.Īnd then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.
But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.Ĭamino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic.
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