Starting with some prettily portrayed trips, the second half details the prejudice and trials that the family faces. But this is essentially a travelogue without any travel. The word choices and verses are powerfully brief in nature, and fans of Brown Girl Dreaming may also enjoy this novel. This is another book I have a hard time envisioning recommending to someone unless they had a special interest in autobiographies, prejudices, and the Cuban/American tensions. In the beginning, her family is observed and questioned, but as the hostility continues Margarita can’t understand the animosity present, and how her fellow Americans are uneducated and unaffected, since she is privy to a wholly different perspective. But then conflicts between her two homes flare, and her family is unable to travel back to Cuba. For a while they travel from Cuba to the United States and back, visiting family and a whole new culture and world in Cuba. Margarita’s mother is from Cuba, and her father’s family is Ukraine. In one country, I hear the sweet words of another.īut when I make the same claim in Spanish, Publisher/Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, c2015. Title: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
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