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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle
4.0
Margarita feels pulled between two worlds; her home in California and Cuba. Cuba has always felt like the place she belonged and she looks forward to their annual summer visits to see her mother’s family. All of this changed as the Cold War hits its stride and all of the sudden her two homes are on opposite sides of a war.
Enchanted Air is a beautiful memoir in verse that clearly shows a young girl’s love for the countryside farms of Cuba and the confusion of her world’s view of Cubans as dangerous. With lovely lyrical language, Engle explores the confusion of politics and the misplaced hatred of a country whose people are suffering under their own government. This book shows readers the true vibrancy of Cuba through the eyes of a girl who loves the country as her own.
Enchanted Air is a beautiful memoir in verse that clearly shows a young girl’s love for the countryside farms of Cuba and the confusion of her world’s view of Cubans as dangerous. With lovely lyrical language, Engle explores the confusion of politics and the misplaced hatred of a country whose people are suffering under their own government. This book shows readers the true vibrancy of Cuba through the eyes of a girl who loves the country as her own.