Description
Clap When You Land
Elizabeth Acevedo
(Hot Key Books)
Clap When You Land
£7.99
Camino helps Tia in her healing work on the island. She works hard at the private school for which Papi in New York, pays, and longs for his summer visits.
Meanwhile, Yahaira abandons her chess playing when she discovers Papi’s hidden secret as she searches his whereabouts one summer. She smoulders against his secrecy and deception.
Yet, what happens when two girls, in the Dominican Republic and New York, respectively, realise they are both Papi’s daughters? How do they reconcile their lives, differences and similarities alongside Papi’s secrets and lies, and the truths of times before they were born? Life and aspirations for both girls are very different. Both are their father’s pride and joy. Yet each harbour their own secrets, from Yahaira’s sexuality, to the stalking man who watches and frightens Camino.
Clap When You Land is a confident, enlightening, empathetic verse novel born from the author’s need to share the story of Flight 1112, which crash landed some two months after 9/11, the second biggest aviation disaster in US history. Some of the stories of the passengers inspire her own story, which grips and fascinates. Bookwagon recommends Clap When You Land to our oldest, YA readers.
Paula Hale –
Absolutely fabulous! Loved this. One of my favourite books of last year. It shows the danger of keeping secrets how they slowly unravel and the impact it has on everyone around them. Cleverly written and addictive.