Latinx in Publishing is pleased to share ‘I’m So Damn Dominican’ an excerpt from Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo.
From the bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes a new novel-in-verse! Camino lives for when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, she arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. In New York City, Yahaira is called to the principal’s office, where she finds out her father has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—it seems the two girls have lost everything of their father until they learn of each other.
ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is a New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X and With the Fire on High. Her critically-acclaimed debut novel, The Poet X, won the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. She is also the recipient of the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award. Additionally, she was honored with the 2019 Pure Belpré Author Award for celebrating, affirming, and portraying Latinx culture and experience.
