Clap When You Land audiobook

A queenoffers her hand to be kissed,& can form it into a fistwhile smiling the whole damn time. Perhaps what I love most about Clap When You Land, besides the author's obvious talent for writing moving free verse, is that it brings attention to something that so many of us forgot about or never heard about. Tragedies happen all the time. Some are noticed, when they are newsworthy and drenched in politics-- terrorism, school shootings, for example --but some are left to be grieved only by those directly affected. The rest of the world goes on as normal, not seeing the pain inflicted on the community in question.In November 2001, flight AA587 crashed to the ground on its way to Santo Domingo, killing 265 people on a flight where 90% of the passengers were Dominican or of Dominican descent. Noting that it was not another terrorist attack, the media largely ignored it, but it was a terrible blow to the New York Dominican community.Clap When You Land is the story of two girls - Camino and Yahaira - one in the Dominican Republic and one in New York City. They have never met, never spoken, never known about each other's existence, but when their father is killed in a plane crash on his way to visit Camino, they find each other in the midst of their grief.Both girls have their own struggles, but Camino is especially threatened without her father to protect her. Now the local pimp, a man called El Cero, is hanging around, following her. All she wants is to escape, study premed, have a chance at something better. Then along comes Yahaira and turns her life upside down, changes everything she thought she knew about her father. So he created a theater of his life& got lost in all the different roles he had to play. This is another part of the book and I thought it was done really well. 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. That he was more complex, had many flaws. That even though he was a good father, he might not have been a good husband. In this, the book is something of a bildungsroman. Both girls are matured by the intensity of the loss and the discoveries made after.It is a beautiful story that finds a lot of warmth and hope in the darkness of loss. My only complaint is that Camino and Yahaira's voices were a little too similar. I found it especially hard to distinguish the two in the beginning and had to look for other markers to remember whose chapters we were on. But it's a small complaint. Highly recommended for those who enjoyed The Poet X and other novels in verse.Facebook | Instagram

Acevedo writes poetically and passionately like always, and her audiobooks are always great. The book explores themes of grief, family, and cultural differences that would be great for her young adult audience to read.Personally, I would have enjoyed a deeper exploration of grief and the way both girls grapple with the complexities of their family stories. 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. This made more sense when Acevedo reveals in her author’s note that she hadn’t made the decision to split into two POVs until later on, so the two protagonists didn’t feel distinctive enough. The sister relationship also has a lot of potential to be explored more deeply, but we barely got to see them spend much time interacting with each other and coming to terms with one another. I wish more time had been devoted to the relationship between the two protagonists rather than spending 2/3 of the book reading a repetition of their same reactions.Still a very solid YA book and would recommend to teens.

Every time I read an Elizabeth Acevedo book, I think that it can't possibly top her previous work, but every time I am so, so wrong. This is my favorite of Acevedo's works yet. I very rarely cry while listening to audiobooks, but this one had me sobbing while washing dishing and I just loved it so fucking much. I recommend this book to absolutely EVERYONE. TW: death of a parent, plane crashes, stalking, sexual assault

Me on Goodreads: ew, haha...poetry is grossMe in person when a man is telling me that poetry is gross: Would you say a song without music is gross? Would you call lyricism gross? Would you call prose that uses metaphor and style and meter meaningfully gross??? Or do you just think you're too cool????Me writing this review: Okay, poetry is good sometimes, actually.I have read Elizabeth Acevedo's prose before...and it wasn't my favorite. I have read poetry before and been super-picky about it. I have read books that were that weird kind of prose-y poetry and haven't liked them either.But I liked this one!That's all I have to say.Bottom line: I have been converted. But only for this one example.-------------pre-reviewmaybe poetry is actually good sometimes. like when i can read a 400 page book in under 2 hours, for example.review to come / 4 stars-------------tbr reviewupdate: this buddy read was canceled when 3 out of 4 of us didn't want to read poetry. kind of iconic of us wouldn't you say-------------please don't ask when i realized this book is written in poetry (but it was after i started)buddy read with my three favs

This is so poignant, lyrical, heartfelt, well-conceived, true to life, sublime, extremely emotional novel about two sisters’ bounding story who never knew each other till an unexpected accident shatters their lives and takes their father away from them. Elizabeth Acevedo’s poetry combines with the heartwarming story based on true events: on November 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 flight was regularly scheduled to fly from JFK International Airport to Las Americas Airport in Santa Domingo but it crashed into Belle Harbor/on the Rockaway Peninsula of Queens, took 260 people’s lives and nearly %90 was Dominican and of Dominican descent. Tragedy might be forgotten but it truly affected the lives and shaken Dominican community of New York to the core. According one of the writers of NY Times: For Dominicans: those journeys to the home were defining their complex push-pull relationship with their homeland. At the very same accident: two girls lost their father. Camino lives in Dominican Republic and Yahaira lives in NY. Camino goes to the airport to summon her father and after seeing the crying crowds of people, she startles in shock, in the meantime in New York, Yahaira is summoned to the principal’s office to get the tragic news. They don’t have enough time to digest the news when they learn double life of their father. Now they are dealing with their grief, starting to learn about each other, trying too hard to adapt in their new lives. They also need to accept the fact their father is not the perfect man they adored. Only true thing may help them move on their lives: he really loved both of them. Especially Camino’s new life conditions will be more challenging because she lives in a dangerous territory, chasing by a man named El Cero who is a local pimp. She just wants to lay low and survive, studying premed and being a normal teenager. This is so intense story consisting sensitive elements like sexual assault, grief, plane crush, betrayal, dysfunctional family dynamics. Sometimes you feel the burning sensation coming from your heart during your read and you want to stop for taking few breaths because the characters already conquered your soul and it’s so natural to ache and deeply care for them. But at the end: all those suffering and emotional stress you endured are truly worth it because this is unique and beautiful sisterhood story brighten your mood and it is one of the best young adult fiction novels of the year. Overall: I enjoyed it and I highly recommend it.bloginstagramfacebooktwitter

Acevedo is at the top of her game.This one will be hard to beat in the years to come or even decades to come. I do not usually like books written in verse. But when it comes to this author, I like it more when it's in verse. She's so good at this!Everything makes sense about this book. The cover, the title, the story, the characters, the ending.I have loved the book written in verse 'The Poet X" years ago when it came out and I was in the middle of reading her other book 'With The Fire On High' which came out just last year. 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. But this particular book turned out to rip my heart into pieces (I wasn't expecting that!).The story deals with the sudden demise of a father in a plane crash (based on the September 11, 2001, flight AA587 crash). The book is the story of a girl's journey of her grieving process and how she discovers some of the most painful secrets her family but also finding something precious which would completes her in the end.There's another girl who's going through the same road as hers in another part of the world.This is the story of Camino and Yahaira. The story is wholesome, painful yet hopeful. *Book in verse*Sexual assault in some parts*Lgbtq representation done wellI don't remember how many times I had to put down the book because I was sobbing senseless while reading it 😭Clap When You Land, what have you done to me???!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~````~~~~~~````~~~~~~~~``````~~~~~~````~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~``````~~~~~~~~~~~~~```````~~~~~~~~~``````~~~~~~~~~~```~~~~~~~````~~~~~~~~~``````~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~``~~~~~`````~~~~~~``````~~~~~~~~~(you can now drown in my ocean of tears I cried since page 1).

i love elizabeth's writing, so so much. this book knocked it out of the park once again. from the format to the characters to the setting, this book is lifelike and resounding. great exploration of heritage and family and different life experiences, and the first book i've read set in the dominican republic. if you liked the poet x, i highly recommend this.

Rereading this book was the best decision of my reading year thus far, apart, maybe, from finally picking up a Toni Morrison novel. Last year, I listened to the audiobook for Clap When You Land and felt somewhat disappointed. Elizabeth Acevedo is one of my favorite writers, so a lukewarm 3 stars just didn't feel right. On my first listen, I couldn't really connect to any of the characters, and the girls' voices sounding eerily similar, so much so that I was unable to distinguish them most of the time. When I voiced my frustration, a lot of people reached out to tell me that I definitely need to READ the book in order to properly enjoy it. And boy, ya'll were right. Reading this book was a whole 'nother experience. It was magical. I was sucked into the story. Both of the girls became incredibly precious to me. I gasped. I sobbed at the ending (literal tears streaming down my face). I devoured the book, and it has honestly become one of my new favorites of all time! I think what stood out to me the most is that upon my reread, I focused on wholly different things. During my listen of the audiobook, I was preoccupied with keeping the two sisters apart, and was mainly focused on the plot surrounding the death of their father, and their mourning and grieving periods. And a lot of that fell flat for me. 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. I tabbed all the passages in which life in the DR and/ versus the US was explored, and all the important issues that Clap When You Land raises. And boy, let me tell you, I tabbed a whole fucking lot. So, let's get into it!The difference between the sisters is established from the start. The book opens with a powerful passage from the perspective of Camino: I know too much of mud.I know that when a street doesn’t have sidewalks& water rises to flood the tile floors of your home,learning mud is learning the language of survival. As a girl from Germany, I know nothing of mud, or floods, or survival really. For Camino, though, living in the DR, that's her daily bread. In her first chapter, we meet her as she accompanies her aunt Tía, who works as a local healer, to a woman who suffers from cancer. Camino, at age 16, tends to the patient. And Acevedo invites us into Camino's thoughts and innermost wishes: to move to the US to attend medical school. She wants to become a "proper" doctor. Every year for my birthday he asks me what I want.Since the year my mother died, I’ve always answered: 
“To live with you. In the States.” It is also established that she doesn't feel safe in her neighborhood, amongst the people who should be her community. We see Camino face cat-calls (and other much more severe forms of sexual harassment, as we later learn^^) on the streets. We see the reality of what it means to grow up in a female body without a father (or male guardian). I am so accustomed to his absencethat this feels more like delay than death Rereading Camino's opening chapter was like a sucker punch to my stomach. It made me incredibly sad. Camino's helplessness from the start was painful to witness. As a reader, I had to face my own privilege(s). I never had to face what it feels like to literally have no future in your own home country. My reality mirrors more Yahaira's, whom we meet in the next chapter. Yahaira lives in New York. And the way we are introduced to her shows the stark contrast between these girls. We meet Yahaira at school, listening to her girlfriend talk about "climate-change protests", while she is flipping through a magazine. The irony is not lost that we've just left Camino's POV of illness, floods and hurricanes. For Yahaira, if she considers these problems at all, they are abstract, not palpable. 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". The disparity of the girls is also shown in the way they both learn about their father's death. Camino learns of the plane crash directly at the airport, because she wanted to pick up her father. She is in shock, yet has to walk home all by herself. Whereas Yahaira is called to the principal's office where her mom waits for her to tell her of the horrible incident. Yahaira, in contrast, gets picked up from school and is driven home by her mother. I think it's very clever how Acevedo establishes within the first two chapters that we are dealing with two very different people, and two very different sets of circumstances. I don't know why that didn't hit me as hard during my listen of the audiobook, but during my reread, it was blatantly obvious that Clap When You Land is, amongst other things, a brilliant commentary on privilege, and one we don't see very often, as it doesn't hinge on the question of race, but rather on the place where you were born and live.In Camino's next chapter, we learn more about her and her life in the DR. 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 ... things that distinguish Camino and her aunt Tía from the rest of their neighborhood—things that for Yahaira, and for me, are the most normal thing in the world. Camino also says flat-out that she is 100% financially dependent on her father: "without his help life as we’ve known it has ended."We also learn that Camino lives amongst hustlers, people her father gave money to to keep an eye on her. One hustler, El Cero, is a central figure in her story: & I’ve known that from the moment I turned thirteenPapi paid El Cero a yearly fee to leave me alone.But the last few months, I’ve felt his eyes on my back. Early on, Acevedo establishes that he's a threat, and the main reason why Camino feels unsafe where she lives. I also appreciate that Acevedo didn't shy away from including topics such as sex tourism, forced prostitution and human trafficking in her YA novel: El Cero hustles bodies; eagle-eyed young girls from the time they are ten & gets themin his pocket with groceries & a kind word.When those girls develop & show the bud of a blossom, he plucks them for his team. Word on the street is El Cero always gets a first tasteof the girls who work for him. Before he gussies them up& takes them by the resort beach in cut-off tanks & short shortsso the men from all over the world who come here for sun& sex can give thumbs-up or-down to his wares. His women.Not women, yet. Girls. Later in the book, Camino explains further: Even the women, girls like me,our mothers & tías, our bodiesare branded jungle gyms. Men with accents pick usas if from a brochure to climb& slide & swing. This storyline surrounding El Cero wanting to pressure Camino into prostitution was horrible to read about, since it's the reality for so many girls. His character made me feel sick to my stomach. And it's just so distressing that he is the reason why Camino knows there is no safe future for her in the DR. Camino lets us know why the beach and the sea are so important to her: it has saved my life on the many dayswhen I need a reminder the world is biggerthan the one I know, & its currents are always moving; when I need a reminderthere is a life for me beyond the water& that one day I will not be left behind We then jump back into Yahaira's POV, and I was happy to realise that another reason why the girls' POVs were easier to distinguish whilst reading the book is the fact that Acevedo switched up her writing style: Yahaira's chapters feel a lot more lighthearted, especially in the beginning. Yahaira tells us of her girlfriend Dre, and it's wonderful to see a happy, and healthy lesbian relationship in a YA novel. It was also good to see that Yahaira's mother was very accepting of this relationship, even though her father never realised that Dre was actually her girlfriend. Through Yahaira, the question of identity for people in the diaspora is raised: "If you asked me what I was, / & you meant in terms of culture, / I’d say Dominican. / No hesitation, / no questions about it. / Can you be from a place / you have never been? / You can find the island stamped all over me, / but what would the island find if I was there? / Can you claim a home that does not know you, / much less claim you as its own?" It's such a complex and interesting topic, and I'm glad Acevedo didn't shy away from addressing it in her book!When we see Camino again, we are introduced to her friend Carline, who is pregnant, but still has to work endless hours since her family needs the money to eat. Through Carline, Acevedo doesn't just address the topic of teen pregnancy but also the discrimination that Haitian people face in the DR. When Carline goes into labor, Camino notes: "Carline should be in a hospital, / but Maman says the babe is coming too fast, / & they panicked thinking of the logistics. / It is not an easy thing to do, / for a Haitian parent to bring their child / to a Dominican hospital to give birth. / There is already a lot of tension around / who here deserves care; I cannot fault Maman / for being too afraid." This is also the chapter in which Camino has to reconcile her endless love for her home country ("This everyday kindness in my home. / Even if I could leave, / how would I stomach it?") with the safety hazard that El Cero poses on her life, as he begins following her, stalking her on the beach, and approaching her more and more aggressively. As with any work of Acevedo's, she finds just the right words to describe how it feels to be helpless, violated and vulnerable: I am glad I am near home,that there are houses beyond the clearing,Because in this moment, I am a girl a man stares at:
I am not a mourning girl. I am not a grieving girl.
I am not a parentless girl. I am not a girl without means.I am not an aunt’s charity case. I am not almost-alone. There are two things that I didn't like about how the sexual harassment was handled in the story though: 1) There is a scene in which Camino wants to reach out to her aunt Tía to tell her about El Cero, but before she gets the chance, Tía accuses her of having let El Cero on, of inviting him into her life. And that scene rubbed me the wrong way because it was so out of character for Tía. It makes no sense that she would seriously think Camino would’ve hung out with El Cero voluntarily. Tía knows he’s a pimp, and that Camino’s father used to pay him money, so that he would leave Camino alone. Acevedo uses this scene as a tool to make Camino feel more isolated and ashamed of what's happening to her ... and honestly? I hate that. I wish more YA books would push the message that opening up about your problems is actually PREVENTIVE and HELPFUL. But instead, Acevedo lets it come to El Cero nearly raping Camino in a "thrilling" showdown at the end of the book. Ugh. ISSA NO FROM ME! And 2) The fact that Camino constantly goes back to the fucking beach, even though she knows that El Cero will be there, and will approach and harass her. I'm not victim blaming her, it just makes no sense to me why Camino would put herself willingly in this very unsafe environment because literally EVERY TIME (!) she goes to the beach to swim, El Cero assaults her in a way. And I know that Acevedo really honed in the message that Camino lOvEs SwImMinG and needs the sea ... but gurl? Really?I also found it interesting how gentrification comes up in both POVs. Yahaira notices the gentrification in New York: in the area where her tight-knit Dominican American community used to live hipster cafes and bars have sprung up. Meanwhile, Camino notes: "Our land, lush & green, is bought / & sold to foreign powers so they can build / luxury hotels for others to rest their heads." And it's topics like these that Acevedo incorporates so flawlessly into the narrative. Even though they aren't the focus of the story of the story, it feels natural (and authentic) that they're there, likewise with the topic of police brutality in the US (Yahaira mentioning her coping mechanism when yet another video of a Black boy being shot, or a Black girl being pulled over are trending on social media) or the problem of colorism within BIPOC communities ("The aunts & uncles who said my mom / should have married a lighter-skinned man"). I also loved seeing unravel how the two girls finally learned of each other, and what they thought of each other before interacting, and how they grew to respect and love each other once they met. I found it especially believable that Camino had, initially, a very bad opinion of Yahaira, thinking "Maybe she is busy / being rich & hanging out with her mother / & not thinking about me." I think I hate this sisterShe messages methat she has acquired a plane ticket.& how easy she says it.Because it wasn’t endless paperwork,Because no one wondered if she wouldwant to overstay her visa. The years my father triedto get me to the States,& that girl over there fills out a short form,is granted permission, given a blue book—shit, an entire welcome mat to the world. It isn't fair that Yahaira has access to so many things Camino doesn't. It's natural that she feels envy and resentment towards her. I also found it interesting to see their intercultural misunderstandings: "She asks if I can pick her up from the airport. / & I want to ask her what car she thinks I have. / Or maybe she imagines like a mule / I will sling her across my back?" It's clear that Yahaira didn't mean anything bad when she asked Camino to pick her up, but it's also understable that Camino would interpret that in a less favorable way. Tía’s voice has cometo take meall these womenhere to take mehome It was beautiful to witness the girls getting closer once Yahaira actually landed in the DR for the funeral. When, at the end, she is the one who saves Camino (alongside with her mother being a baddy and Tía wielding a fucking MACHETE being readyyy to kill El Cero), thinking "We must protect Camino at all cost", I sobbed, because it was so believable. And Camino getting the opportunity to live in the US with her sister didn't feel flat or constructed (as it did when first listened to the audiobook). It made a lot of sense. It's what she had wanted all along: pursuing her dreams, going to medical school, and having a family.I could go on and on about this book but I'll leave it here!

Just posted my Goodreads Choice 2020 Reaction Video on Booktube! Click the link to check it out!! The Written Review Camino Rios lives in the Dominican Republic. Every summer, her dad comes to visit and it's the highlight of the year.Yahaira Rios lives in New York City. Every summer, her dad leaves her to "visit" family in the DR.One horrible day, both Camino and Yahaira realize that their dad dies on a plane crash on his way to the DR. And then they learn of each other.Stunned by the loss and reeling from the realizations, the half-sisters will have to learn what it truly means to be family.This was a surprisingly good book.I'm not normally one for contemporaries - and even less so for "sad" contemporaries...but I enjoyed this one.There was a level of raw emotion and real despair rarely seen in a YA book and that was tempered by love and familial support. The pacing did feel a bit slow and other events were too sped up for me but at the end of the day...I enjoyed this book.YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat @miranda_reads

Elizabeth Acevedo has done it again! I actually do think that she is one of my favorite authors because when she writes in verse, her work just touches me differently. The way she writes is just so beautiful and she has these one liners that just leave you thinking. This story of two sisters was absolutely amazing and i already want to reread so that i can annotate it

4.5 starsElizabeth Acevedo has done it again. This is a gorgeously written story told in verse, and I listened to the audiobook again which I think is the best way to consume her books. This story follows two sisters who are unaware that the other exists. They discover each other when their Father dies in a plane crash, one of them lives in New York and the other in the Dominican Republic. They both grieve as they realize their Father lived two lives. Like all of Elizabeth Acevedo's books this story is written so so beautifully and it touches on a lot of heartfelt, sensitive topics.I especially loved this one because I love stories that follow sisters and this format and story-telling style was really interesting, I liked going back and forth between their POV's. I also have a great relationship with my Dad and I could never imagine losing him, let alone going through what these girls have to go through, I just felt so much for them and the audiobook actually made me tear up a few times. Anytime a book discusses the grief of losing a parent it really hits me hard because that's a pain I can't even begin to imagine. Elizabeth Acevedo is one of the best YA writers out there right now. I'm rarely ever interested in reading YA anymore but I will always, always pick up her books.

This was an absolute joy and a privilege to listen to. Highly recommended!*Full disclosure: I used an audio credit supplied by Libro.FM as part of their affiliate program.

“I’m the child her father left her for in the summers. While she is the child my father left me for my entire life.” Aw - I really liked this!Yahaia and Camino both love their Papi. He is their idol, their hero and when he dies in a plane crash flying from New York to the Dominican Republic they are heartbroken. What neither of them realises though, when they think about their Papi - is that they are both thinking about the same man. A man who spent 9 months of the year in New York and then his Summers in DR. A man who kept hidden the fact he had two daughters to two different women. This novel is heavily steeped in the grief the two girls feel and how they each come to terms with their father’s death but also the acceptance that he wasn’t a perfect person. He had secrets. Reading about the Dominican culture was fascinating. I love it when books can teach me things without it even feeling like I’m learning. I was absorbed in the girls’ story. I found the writing difficult at first as it is written in verse which is something I’m not accustomed to but pretty soon I was flying and I finished it in two days. A wonderful tale about finding the good in the worst of times. “Playing chess taught me a Queen is both: deadly & graceful, poised & ruthless. Quiet & cunning. A Queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time.” *********************Am I only just now adding all three of this authors books to my TBR because I have been living under a rock? Yes. Yes I am.

"A truth you did not wantcan put a collar around your neck& lead you into the dark,the places where all yourmonsters live." Every once in a while you read a book that totally surprises you and for me “Clap When You Land” definitely falls into this kind of category. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I opened this book but when I saw the writing style I was a little bit sceptical at first. The entire book is written like the quote above and I was worried this would dampen my enjoyment of the book. Little did I know that it would be the perfect way to enhance the impact of Yahaira’s and Camino’s story. I swear I’ve never read anything like this before and it was so beautifully written that I just wanted to soak up those words and keep them close to my heart forever. Yahaira and Camino come from two totally different worlds. One of them lives in New York while the other one lives in the Dominican Republic. Their lives couldn’t have been any more different yet there is something they both have in common: Their unconditional love for their father. ”For the rest of my life I will sit & imaginewhat my father would say in any given moment.& I will make him up:his words, his advice, our memories.” Their father is everything to them. Their hero, their friend, their idol and so many other things you can’t even put into words. Well, and then he dies in a plane crash on his way to DC and the entire house of cards that was built on so many lies comes crashing down on them. Yahaira and Camino didn’t even know that they are half-sisters and after their father’s death layer after layer of his complicated life gets exposed. How do you grieve for your father once you discovered that he wasn’t the person you thought him to be? How do you deal with the aftermath of not only his unexpected and sudden death but also with the people he left behind? The people you didn’t even know are part of your family? How do you accept that the person you loved so dearly had a secret life in another country? And how do you forgive him for cheating on your mother if he isn’t even there to take the blame or to be confronted about it? ”All these lies that we’ve all swallowed,they’re probably rotting in our stomachs.”Elizabeth Acevedo explores all of those questions and tries to find an answer for her two protagonists. And she does it so gently and in such a kind manner that it’s impossible not to feel with those two girls. The situations they have to face are frightening and upsetting but they have to face them no matter if they want to or not and in the end both girls come out of it stronger. They aren’t just connected by blood but also by their love for their father and when push comes to shove that’s all that really matters. ”if a heart has topography,I know none of these boys know the coordinatesto navigate & survive mine’s rough terrain.” Conclusion:All told I really enjoyed “Clap When You Land” and I’m very glad I picked it up. This was a beautiful and sad story that broke my heart and kind of mended it again. It wasn’t just heart-warming but also encouraging and there definitely need to be more stories like that! This said: No matter what Acevedo writes next, I’ll make sure to have it on my radar! ____________________________I wanted to read “Clap When You Land” for ages and even spoke about it in my ”New Library Book Haul” video! Which I uploaded at the end of July. (Gosh I’m such a snail. *lol*) So I guess it’s about time I finally start with this book!The plot sounds super intriguing and I only heard good things so far. I’m very curious how this is going to play out. The format in which it’s printed is definitely very unique so I guess we’ll see how it reads. Did any of you read this already and if yes, did you enjoy it? =)

This book was amazing.I love how it was written in verse. I'm usually not into books written in verse but this one was just so stunning. The story of two teens living two different lives realize they have more than they think in common.This book tackles so many things, race, grief, sexual assault, family, and more. It will be a book that sticks with you and the characters as well.