Yahaira lives with both of her parents in NYC, loves fashion, and enjoys spending time with her girlfriend Dre. You do not call bad spirits into the room, Of the dying as if they are already dead. I love this quote, which she has learned by shadowing her Tia. Camino aspires to attend Columbia University and become a doctor. Camino lives with her Tia in the Dominican Republic, her mother having died years earlier, and her father living and working in New York City, spending summers in the DR. The audiobook is narrated by Elizabeth Acevedo herself, reading as Yahaira, and Melania-Luisa Marte, reading as Camino.Īs the synopsis above reveals, Clap When You Land is the story of 2 sisters, neither one knowing about the other’s existence. ( The Poet X is still on my TBR list, but I’ve purchased that one already too.) I borrowed the audiobook from my library system, switching between the 2. I purchased a copy for my Kindle when I saw it go on sale, and read it at the end of January this year. I read Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High last year, which I loved, so I added Clap When You Land to my To Be Read list. 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… “How can you lose an entire person, only to gain a part of them back in someone entirely new?Ĭamino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. Written in verse, it is beautiful and heart-rending, exploring the loss shared by 2 girls from 2 very different worlds. Clap When You LandĬlap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo’s 2020 YA novel, is a story about grief, family, culture, and love. The prints and shadows are meant to echo the cover art, which is by Bijou Karman.

I chose bricks to represent NYC for Yahaira, and the beach to represent Camino’s beloved ocean. The cover of Clap When You Land on my Kindle, on a printed paper backdrop.

Clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo