Non-Spanish speakers, I think you’ll be ok. Their displays of grief and anger, fear and sadness are transportive and are perfect for those days when you need something that gives you permission to cry.Ĭheck out the opening of the book read by the author:Īs you can tell from the excerpt read by the author and the quotes I have pulled that are below, there is Spanish sprinkled all the way through the book. Both women are truly gifted and display obvious talents nurtured by their shared slam poetry backgrounds. I listened to the audiobook version, where Acevedo read the parts narrated by Yahaira and Melania-Luisa Marte read Camino. Neither knows the other exists until he dies in a plane crash.Ĭlap When You Land is a novel in verse, an approach that reflects Acevedo’s own beginnings (and obvious excellence) in slam poetry.
Born three months apart, they share a father, a man defined by his routine absence in their lives. So fair warning, if your heart can’t handle a story of surviving the unexpected loss of a parent, there’s nothing wrong with finding other, less tear-stained reading experiences.Ĭlap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo tells the story of two sixteen-year-old Dominican girls, one living in New York City and one living in the Dominican Republic. It’s a book drowning in grief and desperation, finely wrought and deeply felt, and it’s an understatement to say that at parts it was so good and so sad and so precise in its pain that I was simply made of tears. Plus don't miss Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X and With the Fire on High!Death of a parent plane crashes sexual assault in public places stalkers that sideeye adults sometimes gives girls, holding them complicit in the violence of men against their own bodies women being forced into sex work Great for summer reading or anytime! Clap When You Land is a Today show pick for "25 children's books your kids and teens won't be able to put down this summer!" 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.
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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