{"id":32995,"date":"2022-04-21T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=32995"},"modified":"2022-04-21T13:10:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:10:54","slug":"land-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/land-collection\/32995\/","title":{"rendered":"Clap When You Land: Collection Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The current Collection Highlights display at Hayden Library is inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT Reads<\/a> spring selection,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/mit-reads\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Clap When You Land<\/em><\/a> by Elizabeth Acevedo and features works by Afro-Latinx and Dominican writers. In <em>Clap When You Land<\/em>, a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and <em>New York Times<\/em>-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32997 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/ClapWhenYouLand_CollHigh2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/ClapWhenYouLand_CollHigh2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/ClapWhenYouLand_CollHigh2-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/ClapWhenYouLand_CollHigh2-624x891.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can find the Collection Highlights at Hayden in the middle of the 2<span style=\"font-size: small\">nd<\/span>\u00a0floor Quiet Reading Room, or you can request a title from our curated list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935219730306761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bendicio\u0301n : the complete poetry of Tato Laviera \/ Tato Laviera<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935220621706761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bird of paradise : how I became Latina \/ Raquel Cepeda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935220621606761\">Brother sister mother explorer : a novel \/ Jamie Figueroa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma990017236210106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chang\u00f3, the biggest badass \/ Manuel Zapata Olivella<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma990023952000106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daring to write : contemporary narratives by Dominican women \/ edited by Erika M. Mart\u00ednez<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935220621306761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Efrain&#8217;s secret \/ Sofia Quintero<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935216931006761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halsey Street \/ Naima Coster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma990007413700106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krik? Krak! \/ Edwidge Danticat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma990002630090106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las grandes eleg\u00edas y otros poemas \/ Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935219730106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letters to my mother \/ by Teresa Ca\u0301rdenas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1vi3e6n\/alma990016873900106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love, anger, madness : a Haitian trilogy \/ Marie Vieux-Chauvet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935220621206761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A message from Rosa : an African diaspora novel in short stories \/ Quince Duncan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1vi3e6n\/alma9935163713106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nuestra Sen\u0303ora de la Noche \/ Mayra Santos-Febres<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935220621006761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sana Sana \/ Ariana Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma990010324180106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Song of the water saints \/ Nelly Rosario<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935216930906761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To love and mourn in the age of displacement \/ Alan Pelaez Lopez<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935219730206761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wild tongues can&#8217;t be tamed : 15 voices from the Latinx diaspora \/ edited by Saraciea J. Fennell<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have a book in mind to add to this display? Please let us know at <a href=\"mailto:tinachan@mit.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tinachan@mit.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The current Collection Highlights display at Hayden Library is inspired by the MIT Reads spring selection,\u00a0Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo and features works by Afro-Latinx and Dominican writers. In Clap When You Land, a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. You can find the Collection Highlights at Hayden in the middle of the 2nd\u00a0floor Quiet Reading Room, or you can request a title from our curated list: Bendicio\u0301n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"subtitle":"Check out these titles by Afro-Latinx and Dominican writers","is_event":false,"calendar_url":"","calendar_id":"","calendar_image":"","pauthor":"S Kohler","urgent":true,"notes":"please post ASAP, thanks! -SK","featuredListImg":false,"homeImg":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/ClapWhenYouLand_CollHigh2_111x206_acf_cropped.jpg","listImg":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/ClapWhenYouLand_CollHigh2_323x111_acf_cropped.jpg","homepage_post_title":"Clap When You Land: Collection Highlights","featuredArticle":"false"},"categories":[10,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","category-humanities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}