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. 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.

This story was so moving and heartfelt, addled with grief, loss and having your world altered due to death and family secrets.But all life is thrown into terrible disarray when she goes to meet Papi at the airport and learns that his plane has fallen from the sky, and then: "I am swallowed by this shark-toothed truth. Raw and emotional, Acevedo's exploration of loss packs an effective double punch, unraveling the aftermath of losing a parent alongside the realities of familial inheritance. 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. The infidelity and machismo that can be rampant in Dominican culture is a source of grief as it is in Clap When You Land, and we watch these two girls process that grief and the dueling realities of a man who was a good father, but a bad husband. 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.

Tackles family secrets, toxic masculinity, and socio-economic differences with incisive clarity and candor.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 . A tale of two sisters who only discover the other’s existence when their father dies in a plane crash – the journey he took between his two families. 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. Review: “With the Fire on High” by Elizabeth Acevedo was one of my favorite reads of last year, and even though I’ve had “Clap When You Land” on my to-read pile since it arrived last summer, I have to tell you guys I was a little intimidated.

But instead, Acevedo lets it come to El Cero nearly raping Camino in a "thrilling" showdown at the end of the book. Within five pages, I was completely engrossed in the structure and I really didn’t even notice beyond being wowed by the author’s extreme talent. A story of the difference money can make, and of the crippling grip of poverty and the hold it has over even the most determined lives. She is also the recipient of the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award.Two things in this novel I especially loved: this story of a Dominican man living in the US, a family in each location, is one that isn't as uncommon as maybe people think. Now they are dealing with their grief, starting to learn about each other, trying too hard to adapt in their new lives. 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. 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.