5/28/2023 0 Comments Clap when you land yahaira![]() ![]() This double-life reminds Yahaira of the squares on the chessboard: each box separate, rigidly containing itself so that nothing bleeds out into the next square. Yahaira Rios lives in New York with her parents, and asks every year if she. ![]() The plane ride between the two places was the demarcation line between his two selves- two lives that never intersected in his lifetime. Elizabeth Acevedo's new Clap When You Land is a novel, in verse, about two sisters losing their father, their hero. Each year, he’d spend the summer in the DR, and would then return for the rest of the year to New York. She accidentally discovers that her father led a clandestine life in the Dominican Republic with a second wife and a daughter. For chess-master Yahaira in New York, the secrets of her father’s life threaten to suffocate her. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. For Camino in the Dominican Republic, her father’s death brings not only grief but a financial ticking time bomb it’s only a matter of time before she and her Tia run out of money and Camino’s dream of becoming a doctor fades away. ![]() Camino and Yahaira don’t know each other, but they share a father and they share the excruciating pain of losing him in a plane crash. Written in Acevedo’s effortless verse, Clap When You Land follows two sisters, separated by hundreds of miles and decades of secrets. Clap When You Land is Elizabeth Acevedo’s fourth book but my first experience reading her. ![]()
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