Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina

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pucksandpaperbacks's review

4.0

 Really enjoyed this. A beautifully written story about a biracial Asian American woman learning about her mother's heritage - Okinawan. As a teenager, she expresses disdain for her mother and untangles her internalized racism. In her thirties, Brina realizes she can relate to her mother and feels guilty.

 I really enjoyed the last section of the book where Elizabeth and her parents go to Okinawa to visit her
mother's family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, Racism, Violence, Genocide, and Animal death

Rape/SA, Attempted self-harm, murder, genocide, blood, war, PTSD, child death, Racism, alcoholism, Internalized racism, car accident