Soaring Earth by Margarita Engle - OPTIONAL

Soaring Earth (Enchanted Air #2) by Margarita Engle, 157 pages.  NON-FICTION Atheneum Books, 2019.  $19.  

Content: Language: G; Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: G.  

BUYING ADVISORY: HS – OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW  

This is Margarita Engle’s memoir about her time as a teenager and her first years in college against the backdrop of the Vietnam War.  Margarita enjoyed reading and learning but was distracted by the protests and hippie lifestyle that she found on her college campus.  Engle ended up taking a break from college and tried to find her place in the world, eventually making her way back to her parents.  

This memoir is written in prose and although I usually really enjoy Engle’s writing, this book was all over the place.  I felt like the author included so many details that there wasn’t a decipherable direction that I could follow.  The author’s note at the end made the most sense. The content includes underage marijuana smoking.  Also, this book makes more sense if you have read her first memoir, Enchanted Air.

Reviewer, C. Peterson