A review by bluehairedlibrarian
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger by Margarita Engle

4.0

A short novel in verse about two teenagers in Cuba during the famine years of the early 1990s. As with a lot of verse novels, I didn't think the format was used to advance the story except in rare occasions, especially as the two protagonists' stories came together. The addition of a possibly magical dog gave a harrowing story some magical realism, but it's mostly about the struggle of surviving a country that refuses to take care of its people for the sake of maintaining an image to the rest of the world.