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A review by bookphile
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
5.0
Elizabeth Acevedo is such a unique and incredible author. It's so easy to praise her writing style; it's refreshing, because it's prose, but it's uncomplicated so it flows like a thought which isn't easy to do, especially because she manages to capture so much in fewer words.
Clap When You Land is a heartbreaking novel of loss, betrayal, forgiveness, healing, and sisterhood. What would you do if you found out your father had another family? And the way you find out is by losing him. How do you mourn someone who betrayed your family, how to you remember a person you loved when they shattered the image of themselves with their actions. These seem to be impossible questions, but really there's only one way: forgive though it's not easy, move on to avoid getting stuck and growing bitter, extend a hand, and instead of seeing betrayal and loss, try to see new family rising from heartbreak.
Camino and Yahaira were such perfectly imperfect characters. I cannot imagine going what they went through. I cannot imagine having to face what they did. And though they try to fight it, in the end, they choose forgiveness and each other, though it isn't easy for either of them.
I definitely recommend reading this!
TW: sexual harassement and assault of a minor, implied sex trafficking of minors (not shown), stalking of a minor, death of a family remember, air plane crash, heavy themes of loss and grief.
Clap When You Land is a heartbreaking novel of loss, betrayal, forgiveness, healing, and sisterhood. What would you do if you found out your father had another family? And the way you find out is by losing him. How do you mourn someone who betrayed your family, how to you remember a person you loved when they shattered the image of themselves with their actions. These seem to be impossible questions, but really there's only one way: forgive though it's not easy, move on to avoid getting stuck and growing bitter, extend a hand, and instead of seeing betrayal and loss, try to see new family rising from heartbreak.
Camino and Yahaira were such perfectly imperfect characters. I cannot imagine going what they went through. I cannot imagine having to face what they did. And though they try to fight it, in the end, they choose forgiveness and each other, though it isn't easy for either of them.
I definitely recommend reading this!
TW: sexual harassement and assault of a minor, implied sex trafficking of minors (not shown), stalking of a minor, death of a family remember, air plane crash, heavy themes of loss and grief.