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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir

di Margarita Engle

Altri autori: Edel Rodriguez (Illustratore)

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In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lived in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupted at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Engle's worlds collided in the worst way possible. Would she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?… (altro)
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Having two different identities always makes you question your place in life. What is the right answer to a lifestyle that you think is okay but then get judged at by all the people around you?
  leilanig | Dec 2, 2022 |
Es la historia de una niña que tiene una madre Cubana y un padre Americano y que se siente que tiene dos identidades. Narra sus aventuras en Cuba y durante la guerra fria .Son sus recuerdos hasta que cumple 14 años .
  Doris_R | Oct 17, 2022 |
A memoir in verse about the author's childhood, growing up between two countries and two cultures: her American life in California, and her island life in Cuba - until the Missile Crisis and American travel to Cuba is sharply curtailed, if not impossible.

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Is there any way that two people
from faraway places
can ever really
understand each other's
daydreams? (37)

If only I could just be myself,
instead of half puzzle
and half riddle. (49)

Books are enchanted. Books help me travel.
Books help me breathe. (54)

It really is possible to feel
like two people
at the same time,
when your parents
grandparents
memories
words
come from two
different
worlds. (58)

Some of the sights
that Mami describes
as dire poverty
look like such
luxurious wealth
to a city girl
who loves
farms. (93)

There's something about knowing
the names and faces
of nature's creations
that helps me feel
almost at home
in my sharply divided
shrinking
world. (128)

I feel like the last survivor
of an ancient tribe,
the only girl in the world
who understands
her language. (Solitary, 138)

Right wing or left wing, tyrants always
try to control communication.
They always
fail. (Secret Languages, 179)

I feel like every creature on earth
just might be mysteriously linked,
as we wander from one place
to another, constantly learning
about one another's ways. (180)

Speaking almost feels
like having
wings. (181) ( )
  JennyArch | Jul 2, 2022 |
A beautiful way to share a memoir that involves poetry. ( )
  Mia_Cha | Apr 21, 2022 |
This is a beautiful memoir written by Margarita Engle about her life growing up half Cuban and half American. She shares stories of her childhood and growing up during the Cold War. Her poem-like writing style is easy to read and follow. She uses beautiful descriptive words to enhance the reader's view of what she went through. This would be a great read aloud for 5th graders, and a great read for intermediate and advanced students. ( )
  Shelby.Franks. | Mar 28, 2022 |
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Que facil es volar, que facil es!

Todo consiste en no dejar que el suelo

se acerque a neusteros pies.

Valiente hazana, el veulo!, el veuelo!, el vuelo!

How easy it is to fly, how easy!

It's all done by never allowing the ground

to come close to our feet

Brave deed, flight, flight, flight!

-Anontio Machado, Poema 53
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For my parents, who took me traveling, and my sister, who shared the adventures, and for the estimated ten million people who are currently stateless as the result of conflicts all over the world
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When my parents met, it was love at first sight.
The first time my parents / take me soaring through the magical sky / to meet my mother's family in Cuba, / I am so little that I can hardly speak / to my island relatives- / my abuelita, my old grandma, / who still loves to dance, / and her ancient mama, my great-grandma, / who still loves to garden, working / just as hard as any strong / young man.
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There's something about knowing

the names and faces

of nature's creations

that helps me feel

almost at home

in my sharply divided

shrinking

world.

(p. 128)
My Library Life

Books become my refuge.

Reading keeps me hopeful.

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

from Nigeria

Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya

from India.

I never find any books

about the beautiful green

crocodile-shaped island

that throbs

at the center of my being,

like a living creature,

half heart

and half beast.

(p. 129)
Cave Paintings

In Spain, we venture underground

into the mystery of prehistoric art.

Bison, horses, human handprints.

Herds of wild feelings

long extinct.

(p. 175)
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In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lived in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupted at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Engle's worlds collided in the worst way possible. Would she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?

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