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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. To Camino, Papi is a "A king who built an empire so I'd have a throne to inherit", and she lives for the summer months when he comes home to them. This really added to the book for me as I had sooo many questions about their Father and how this would impact both girls. great exploration of heritage and family and different life experiences, and the first book i've read set in the dominican republic.

During my listen of the audiobook, I was preoccupied with keeping the two sisters apart, and was mainly focused on the plot surrounding the death of their father, and their mourning and grieving periods. If you ever had anyone you loved and trusted turn out to be a very different person from the one you knew, you will share the heartbreak of this book. Adding on to that, I am aware Acevedo is a poet, therefore if she continues writing her future works in poetry, I wouldn't complain nor be surprised.

The believable characters develop and mature as the story unfolds in this tale of family and unconditional love.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. From the descriptions of the food and spices to the small barrios and communities coming together, Elizabeth gives you an image of what the Dominican Republic is like. This is one of the most moving explorations of grief that I've ever read, a deep-dive into the lightless depths of what it means to lose something and be utterly unable to move on—not only a literal person, but also a way of life.Or in this case the preferred method that life chose was to shock the system and turn your comfort zone on its head by sticking a knife through it. How can they reconcile the loving, attentive father with this newly revealed side of him: the terrible husband and the selfish man? We are okay, but that's a celebration, that almost communal exhalation on the plane, releasing the breath that you didn't know you had been holding.

Camino lives in the DR, and she only sees her dad in the summer; she wants to go to Columbia University and become a doctor — after learning about traditional healing from her aunt/guardian. 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. I’m forever grateful for this story for reminding me that one isn’t alone in these various experiences. I'm not victim blaming her, it just makes no sense to me why Camino would put herself willingly in this very unsafe environment because literally EVERY TIME (!Elizabeth Acevedo’s poetry combines with the heartwarming story based on true events: on November 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 flight was regularly scheduled to fly from JFK International Airport to Las Americas Airport in Santa Domingo but it crashed into Belle Harbor/on the Rockaway Peninsula of Queens, took 260 people’s lives and nearly %90 was Dominican and of Dominican descent. I also loved seeing unravel how the two girls finally learned of each other, and what they thought of each other before interacting, and how they grew to respect and love each other once they met. But instead, Acevedo lets it come to El Cero nearly raping Camino in a "thrilling" showdown at the end of the book. I’ve been raised with “traditional” poetry (until this, perhaps the only novel in verse that I ever read was Eugene Onegin), and to me it’s always been the same - the structure, the rhyme, the rhythm. But also, what does it mean to my memory to think through the days and the moment that they didn't end up in celebration.

the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. So, I stand corrected, I love me some Poetry and these two authors have inspired me to go and find out more about a genre it would seem I held a prejudice against. Acevedo's free verse poems for each girl share an easy cadence and thoughtfulness, yet each girl's perspective is clear: Camino is strong but fearful of the dangers that threaten her life and hopes; Yahaira's anger is palpable, but so is her tenderness and love for her girlfriend Dre.All in all, the love and praise Elizabeth Acevedo receives is deserved, and I can see why her books and words manage to grip the reader into continuing with her flow. There comes a time when one stumbles upon a story that echoes all the pain, their anger, and the grief that has been swirling in one’s heart for years. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). But when Camino is at the airport waiting for her father's bright smile and loud laugh, she didn't expect to see a crowd of crying people.