Clap When You Land | Elizabeth Acevedo | Harper Teen | Pub: 5/1/20
“How bittersweet a realized dream can be
flavored.”
My second book of the year and my third
Elizabeth Acevedo book. Clap When You Land was just as amazing as the
other two books. It is written in verse, similar to how The
Poet X was written. Which I really enjoyed that style and I wasn’t sure I
would but I think I actually prefer it. It’s captivating in a different way
than full on paragraphs are…
Clap When You Land is about two girls, Camino
who lives in the Dominican Republic and Yahaira, who lives in New York. (This
next part might seem like a spoiler but it’s not, it’s in the synopsis) Neither
girl knows the other exists until their father is killed in a plane crash on
his way to visit Camino in the Dominican Republic.
After the plane crashes, you see how both
girls and the family that surrounds them react and cope and process. But so
many things go on while both are grieving, and it just makes you realize that life
doesn’t slow down or ease up just because we are grieving.
This book made me feel scared during some
parts but also made me feel love and happiness and regret and guilt. An
absolutely beautiful book.
If you haven’t read her other books, I suggest
you do so. They are brilliant and will forever grace my shelves. You can buy The
Poet X here
and With the Fire on High here.
I also recommend the hardcover versions because the actual covers under the dust
jackets are beautiful. I just need to replace my paperback of The Poet X
with the hardcover edition.
One last quote to wrap up:
“I tell her that when we land some people
on the plane might clap. She turns to me with an eyebrow raised. I imagine it’s
kind of giving thanks. Of all the ways it could end it ends not with us in the
sky or the water, but together on solid earth safely grounded.”
Synopsis (Credit: Goodreads)
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.
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican
Republic. 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 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.
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.
And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they
learn of each other.
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