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100 1 _aBrina, Elizabeth Miki,
_d1981-
_eauthor.
_9109253
245 1 0 _aSpeak, Okinawa :
_ba memoir
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bAlfred A. Knopf,
_c2021.
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a289 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
500 _a"This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _a"A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood and adolescence. Yet, even though she felt almost no connection to her mother's distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers. Decades later, Elizabeth comes to recognize the shame and self-loathing that haunt both her and her mother, and attempts a form of reconciliation, not only to come to terms with the embattled dynamics of her family but also to reckon with the injustices that reverberate throughout the history of Okinawa and its people. Clear-eyed and profoundly humane, Speak, Okinawa is a startling accomplishment--a heartfelt exploration of identity, inheritance, forgiveness, and what it means to be an American"--
600 1 0 _aBrina, Elizabeth Miki,
_d1981-
_9109253
600 1 0 _aBrina, Elizabeth Miki,
_d1981-
_xFamily.
_9109254
600 1 0 _aBrina, Elizabeth Miki,
_d1981-
_xTravel
_zJapan.
_9109255
650 0 _aJapanese American women
_vBiography.
_9109256
650 0 _aJapanese Americans
_xEthnic identity.
_9109257
650 0 _aJapanese Americans
_vBiography.
_9109258
650 0 _aRyukyuans
_zNew York (State)
_vBiography.
_9108039
650 0 _aIntercountry marriage
_zNew York (State)
_zSyracuse.
_9109259
650 0 _aRacially mixed people
_vBiography.
_9109260
651 0 _aOkinawa-ken (Japan)
_vBiography.
_9108041
655 7 _aBiographies.
_2fast
_913266
655 7 _aAutobiographies.
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aBrina, Elizabeth Miki,
_tSpeak, Okinawa
_bFirst edition.
_dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021]
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