![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yahaira lives in New York, and Camino in the Dominican Republic-and neither know the other exists. The lives of two sisters are shattered when their father is killed in a plane crash. Elizabeth Acevedo’s latest novel,Ĭlap When You Land, takes it to another level. 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.Īs a Dominican-American, I am loving that so many recent works are exploring the cultural DNA of the island and its people (ĭominicana by Angie Cruz and Julia Alvarez’sĪfterlife come to mind). 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 best-selling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.ĭon't miss the audiobook, read by Elizabeth Acevedo, the beloved author and narrator of The Poet X, winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner.Ĭamino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. ![]()
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