![]() ![]() ![]() And at the end of every summer when he leaves for the States, she wishes she could go with him. ![]() Every summer Camino’s father visits her in the Dominican Republic where she lives with her aunt since her mother’s passing a decade earlier. & God has tipped this pitcher of people to fill us up.”Įlizabeth Acevedo delivers her most emotionally-charged novel with Clap When You Land, chronicling the grief of two sisters who discover one another’s existence only after the death of their father. 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. ![]() TW: death of a parent, sexual assault, mentions of sex trafficking ![]()
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