Clap When You Land

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A plane headed from New York to the Dominican Republic crashes into the ocean, and there are no survivors. We learn that only through her father's life (and job) in the US were they able to have iron locks on their doors, running water in their home, and a working bathroom . I wanted to read “Clap When You Land” for ages and even spoke about it in my ”New Library Book Haul” video! Now they are dealing with their grief, starting to learn about each other, trying too hard to adapt in their new lives.

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. Secondly, this explores the diaspora from two ends: the way the island is stamped on first generation Americans, and the way that America sits in dreams of those on the island split from their families.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. Each of her book tells a very different story but nevertheless similar stories of girls with multicultural backgrounds and the lives of these girls on what they have to face through normal days. And whilst Camino is helping her aunt care for the sick people of their neighborhood, Yahaira tells us that: "I hang out every Saturday with Dre, / watching Netflix or reading fashion blogs". Reading about Camino and Yahaira, their grief and their new found relationship had my heart sinking deep in my chest. It was touching to see the parental love he had for both his children but the complexity and the impacts on other areas of his life.

Overflowing with truths of the heart, and truths about inequalities that need to be broken, while also addressing the complexities of what it means to be of a place, I can't praise this highly enough. One may think they are alone in these feelings until they find a book that mirrors all those emotions back to you. Stunned by the loss and reeling from the realizations, the half-sisters will have to learn what it truly means to be family.This is also the chapter in which Camino has to reconcile her endless love for her home country ("This everyday kindness in my home. And then I’d get distracted trying to imagine it written as a prose, without the line breaks that suggest the rhythm of reading — and still loved it. 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.

What neither of them realises though, when they think about their Papi - is that they are both thinking about the same man. Two sisters, separated by parents, both living in different countries, unaware of each others existence. I noticed that I read it differently that I usually do, actually sounding out each line in the mental voice instead of reading in chunks like I usually do — I guess like you *would* read poetry — and I loved it. In a moment of hell, it spat out their saviour, a little piece of the Father still living in each of them. I think Acevedo's addition to Drea being her girlfriend was necessary, and I believe she did it really well.She was slowly floating away, hurting and dying in ache and pain, and Drea was able to pull her back. Here, we chat about our favorite (and sometimes least favorite) books, share recommendations on everything from what wine pairs best with that work of fiction to facemasks that make your non-fiction read even better, and live our best basic bookworm lives. During my reread, however, I decided to focus on another thing entirely: the disparity of these two girls, one who grew up with her mother in the United States, and the other who grew up in the Dominican Republic with her aunt. 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. There comes a time when one stumbles upon a story that echoes all the pain, their anger, and the grief that has been swirling in one’s heart for years.

The girls have never met, but they share a bond built of betrayal of trust — their father, “[a] hustler. Similar to how it’s described in the book, the crash had a large impact on the New York Dominican community. 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.We also learn that Camino lives amongst hustlers, people her father gave money to to keep an eye on her. Clap When You Land is a Today show pick for “25 children’s books your kids and teens won’t be able to put down this summer!