A review by bibliobrandie
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle

4.0

I enjoyed this memoir in verse. Engle explores themes of identity as she grows up in two worlds, Cuba and the US. When the 60s hit and she is forbidden to visit Cuba she struggles with that loss of herself and wonders if she now has to consider her family as enemies. When I book talked this to 8th grade students for a memoir unit, many had never even heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis (which just goes to show that even though hate and war rages on, the people/countries that are “enemies” is ever changing). This was a great addition to the unit and shows how memoir can be explored in different ways, the historical elements were a bonus.