The Elizabeth Acevedo love continues! After I finished The Poet X in September, I immediately requested Clap When You Land from the library and it proved just as excellent as The Poet X! It's based on the tragic Flight 587 crash in 2001, when a plane heading out from JFK to Santa Domingo crashed shortly after take-off. Acevedo handles the tragedy with incredible sensitivity, resulting in a stunning, poignant read which brought tears to my eyes on several occasions.

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It's a book centred around secrets, as Yahaira, a young girl living in New York, and Camino, a young girl living in the Dominican Republic, only learn about their relationship to one another after their father dies in the plane crash (those are the first lines on the back of the book, so not a spoiler!). Everyone experiences grief in such different ways, and Acevedo does a brilliant job of exploring every character's reaction following the loss of their father, husband, brother-in-law... no one was left out.

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All of the women in this book are beautifully developed, I seriously loved them all. Although it's possible I loved Dre, Yahaira's girlfriend, a little more than Yahaira and Camino themselves, but she's such a sweetheart it's almost impossible not to!! Can we also have more books with incredible step-parent-esque figures, please and thank you?

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As with The Poet X, Acevedo crams so much raw emotion into her words and when you're dealing with a topic like grief...hoo boy. Once again I missed out on listening to an audiobook of Acevedo, but my library's audio-copy currently has a waiting list until March 2021 lol. But I will definitely reread either this or The Poet X (or both!) via audio, as I'm dying to listen to Acevedo perform her work!