A #PoetryMonth read. If you think novels in verse aren't for you, I encourage you to pick up some of the contemporary YA versions by Elizabeth Acevedo, Jason Reynolds, Ibi Zoboi, etc. They're expertly crafted to carry a narrative and a punch. And they're fast reads (that is, if you don't linger over each affecting line you encounter; I favor marking them to return to later).

Clap When You Land is a two-sided tale of 16-year-old sisters who are entirely unknown to each other when they are thrust into the same gaping grief of losing the larger-than-life man who was their father. Camino learns of the fatal plane crash when she is waiting at the airport in the Dominican Republic for his yearly summer visit. Yahaira is pulled from her school in New York to hear the news from her mother. As the girls work through their grief, they unknowingly work toward each other.

My thanks to HarperCollins for a review copy.
This is a story of loss and grief, but it's also a story of family and resilience and socioeconomic disparity and fate and opportunity and predators and media priorities and forgiveness and these complicated, creative, intelligent teenage girls who take power and bravery in their hands.