Rating: 5/5
05/19/2020 - 05/20/2020
"We stack our faith up like spinal discs to hold us upright; it gives us language to fill our mouths & hearts & ears."
"Papi was a man split in two, playing a game against himself. But the problem with that is that in order to win, you also always lose."
“How can you lose an entire person, only to gain a part of them back in someone entirely new?”
"Never, ever, let them see you sweat, negra. Fight until you can't breathe, & if you have to forfeit, you forfeit smiling, make them think you let them win."
Synopsis
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people...
In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.
Separated by distance - and Papi's secrets - the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.
Papi's death uncovers all the painful truths he kept hidden, and the love he divided across an ocean. And now, Camino and Yahaira are both left to grapple with what this new sister means to them, and what it will now take to keep their dreams alive.
In a dual narrative novel in verse that brims with both grief and love, award-winning and bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.
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