She is a National Poetry Slam champion and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland.

She already knew he had a wife on the island (but not of his secret daughter), and has always longed to reconcile her Dominican heritage with her American life: "Can you be from a place you have never been? TL;DR: Don’t let the structure of this story throw you off — it’s an incredibly engrossing and lyrical of family, love, loss, and growing up. What neither of them realises though, when they think about their Papi - is that they are both thinking about the same man.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We learn that only through her father's life (and job) in the US were they able to have iron locks on their doors, running water in their home, and a working bathroom . 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.

Yet on the day his plane is to arrive and she waits for him at the airport, she learns that his plane has crashed. So many times, I felt the struggle of the narrators between what they knew to be true, what they should be doing, and what they were feeling. Deaths and tragic losses result in constant sorries and I'm sorry for your loss', but Yaya and Camino are tired of having to see these people go from strangers to people that suddenly know their pain, and it's frustrating how much people can change. It didn’t quite hit me as hard as I expected it to given the subject matter, but it still was a book that will stick with me. Part of the girls' discovery of each other is also the discovery that maybe their father wasn't quite the man they thought he was.I especially loved this one because I love stories that follow sisters and this format and story-telling style was really interesting, I liked going back and forth between their POV's. We also learn that Camino lives amongst hustlers, people her father gave money to to keep an eye on her. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award.