![]() ![]() ![]() 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. One of the novel’s protagonists, Yahaira is a Dominican American teenager who lives in New York with her parents, Mami and Papi, until Papi dies unexpectedly in a plane crash. For Camino, the looming threat of deep poverty that has consumed many of her neighbors threatens her own way of life when tuition bills begin to accumulate. At the start of the novel, both women are dissatisfied with their circumstances. ![]() 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. Clap When You Land is, above all, a coming-of-age story. ![]() The story is about two girls, Yahaira, a New York teenager and chess prodigy, and Camino, an aspiring doctor living in the Dominican Republic with her aunt, a curandera, or faith healer. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… Clap When You Land is an incredible addition to this author's growing body of YA literature. 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. Poetry, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Literature ![]()
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