In this story we see the girls facing the news about this terrible air tragedy where their father loses his life along with all the people who were on the plane, but they didn’t know until now about the existence of their father’s other family or about having a sister across the ocean.
The book follows a dual perspective of two girls, one of them Yahaira Rios who lives in New York, and the other Camino Rios who live in the Dominican Republic. 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. 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. Papi’s death uncovers all the painful truths he kept hidden, and the love he divided across an ocean. And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other. 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. 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. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic.
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