by Elizabeth Acevedo
Camino Rios favorite time of year is summer, as that is when Papi comes back to the Dominican Republic. On the day he is set to return, she goes to the airport only to find people crying. Yahaira Rios was having a typical school day when she is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to take her home. Her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Little do these girls know, the man they are grieving is the same one. Kept apart by distance and secrets, their lives are forever altered by his death in this plane crash, and the discovery of each other.
Written in-verse, this story alternates between Camino and Yahaira’s perspectives. In the last section, the girl’s voices are blended. The girls are both wonderfully distinct but yet contain certain similarities. The plane crash in which the girl’s father passes away is loosely based on the real crash of American Airlines 857 that crashed in Queens on November 12, 2001. The story though is about the girls and how their father’s secrets have affected their lives.
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