Acevedo, Elizabeth. Clap When You Land. 2020. Harper Collins Publisher, New York, NY.
ISBN 13: 978-0062882769
Content Warning: Sexual Assault
This book took me by surprise with the open honesty throughout the book. Two young girls: Yahaira and Camino with two different mothers in two different countries discover that they are related to each other when their mutual father dies. Their father had spent 9 months of the year in New York with Yahaira and 3 months in the Dominican Republic with Camino.
Each daughter was very different from the other, and yet the father did his very best to give both girls the very best opportunities that he could. The day that their father boarded an airplane to the Dominican Republic to spend the summer with Camino, the plane crashed soon after take off. As the families grieve the loss of a wonderful man, the girls learn of each other's existence.
The honesty of the girls and the women in the family as they struggled to come to terms with who their father actually was, the lies that had been told, and how to reinvent themselves in the face of great tragedy makes this book stellar. This novel in verse is a must-read.
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