Clap When You Land

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I was so immersed in this story of these two sisters and all the lies their dad kept and their personal issues. that this feels more like delay than deathRereading Camino's opening chapter was like a sucker punch to my stomach. A soul-stirring, heart-healing YA novel-in-verse in which sisters separated by the Atlantic are united by grief for the father they never knew they shared.

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 now gone and it's just the two daughters, hunting in the rubble of his life for answers, trying to find their way to each other across the many distances that divide their two worlds. This is one of the most moving explorations of grief that I've ever read, a deep-dive into the lightless depths of what it means to lose something and be utterly unable to move on—not only a literal person, but also a way of life.There’s a lot to tap into there, but their voices were quite similar to the point where it became difficult sometimes to remember who was speaking. Maybe anger is like a river, maybe it crumbles everything around it, maybe it hides so many skeletons beneath the rolling surface. They discover each other when their Father dies in a plane crash, one of them lives in New York and the other in the Dominican Republic. Although for 16 years the two were not aware of each other, their father traveled back to the Dominican Republic every summer from living with Yahairo to being back with Camino. that one day I will not be left behindWe then jump back into Yahaira's POV, and I was happy to realise that another reason why the girls' POVs were easier to distinguish whilst reading the book is the fact that Acevedo switched up her writing style: Yahaira's chapters feel a lot more lighthearted, especially in the beginning.

Part of the girls' discovery of each other is also the discovery that maybe their father wasn't quite the man they thought he was. We see the reality of what it means to grow up in a female body without a father (or male guardian).And 2) The fact that Camino constantly goes back to the fucking beach, even though she knows that El Cero will be there, and will approach and harass her.

So, I stand corrected, I love me some Poetry and these two authors have inspired me to go and find out more about a genre it would seem I held a prejudice against. He is their idol, their hero and when he dies in a plane crash flying from New York to the Dominican Republic they are heartbroken. And it's just so distressing that he is the reason why Camino knows there is no safe future for her in the DR. Memorable for its treatment of grief, depiction of family ties, and lyrical strength, expect a well-deserved high demand. Sometimes you feel the burning sensation coming from your heart during your read and you want to stop for taking few breaths because the characters already conquered your soul and it’s so natural to ache and deeply care for them.Why I loved this book: I've said about her other books, but it's a little heartbreaking to me that I'm reading these as an adult. It was also good to see that Yahaira's mother was very accepting of this relationship, even though her father never realised that Dre was actually her girlfriend. It is loosely based on events that happened in the 2011 New York-Dominican plane crash (two months after the attack on World Trade Centre). How can Cami and Yaya love their father and mourn him and at the same time wonder if they can ever really forgive him? There is already a lot of tension around / who here deserves care; I cannot fault Maman / for being too afraid.

Splitting his time with his two families, 9 months in New York and 3 months in the Dominican Republic. Will Cami and Yaya ever be able to think of him and see only the word “father” and not the terrible things he left behind? Rereading this book was the best decision of my reading year thus far, apart, maybe, from finally picking up a Toni Morrison novel. The rest of the world goes on as normal, not seeing the pain inflicted on the community in question. As well as being exceptionally affecting on grief, forgiveness and family secrets, Clap When You Land is also devastatingly sharp on the exploitative tendencies of tourism.

Reading about Camino and Yahaira, their grief and their new found relationship had my heart sinking deep in my chest. You'll find lots of reviews talking about that as if it is a lack rather than something you are signing up for. with the safety hazard that El Cero poses on her life, as he begins following her, stalking her on the beach, and approaching her more and more aggressively. How can they reconcile the loving, attentive father with this newly revealed side of him: the terrible husband and the selfish man?