{"id":953,"date":"2021-11-10T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/?p=953"},"modified":"2021-12-06T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T22:26:53","slug":"clap-when-you-land-by-elizabeth-acevedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book review by Elizabeth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_1675-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_1675-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-954\" width=\"-315\" height=\"-420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_1675-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_1675-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_1675-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_1675-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_1675-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m simply thrilled. I can proudly say that this book is one of my favourites this year. This book is deceptively thick which is brilliant. A double space between every two lines forms the illusion of more pages read which is always appreciated. What\u2019s even more brilliant is the actual story, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Clap When You Land <\/em>by Elizabeth Acevedo is about the lives of two girls of the same age, living in different countries, but sharing the same father. Camino lives with her maternal aunt in the Dominican Republic while Yahaira lives in New York City with both her parents. Every summer the girls\u2019 father leaves his family in New York to visit Camino, yet unfortunately on the summer of Camino\u2019s seventeenth birthday, the plane she eagerly awaited her father to step off of crashed into the Atlantic ocean. This raises much trouble for Camino, as her father had paid for her expensive schooling and El Cero, a creep to stay away from her. Without him, her dream of going to university and becoming a doctor in the States really started to seem like only that &#8211; a dream. Meanwhile, in New York, Yahaira is struggling with losing a problematic father, someone she wanted to forgive, but didn\u2019t know how to, and now didn\u2019t have a chance. Things were especially tough with her mother, as they were equally heartbroken. Yet as fate would have it, losing their father was exactly what forced these long lost sisters together for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book almost reads like poetry, almost like a visual representation of thoughts and feelings without any actual pictures. I absolutely adore these two wildly different worlds the author articulates so vividly. I love the realism. It is awfully engaging, and did I already mention beautifully written? I could go on and on about this book as I often do, but I truly don\u2019t think I could ever do it justice. I implore you, if you already happen to be reading this review, to go check the book out, it\u2019ll be worth your while. This book is a diamond in a sea of coal, which only makes me wonder how many more are hiding on the library\u2019s back shelf, outshined by the <em>CliqueBaits <\/em>and <em>Prom Theories<\/em> of this world.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book review by Elizabeth I\u2019m simply thrilled. I can proudly say that this book is one of my favourites this year. This book is deceptively thick which is brilliant. A double space between every two lines forms the illusion of more pages read which is always appreciated. What\u2019s even more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}