Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina

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laceyc1's review

4.5
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ajesq's review

4.25
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4.0
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thisislizwa's review

5.0
Brina's beautiful writing on her life and family plus the totally wild history of Okinawa makes for an A+ reading experience.
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4.75
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ceilingloft's review

4.5
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timwales's review

4.25
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smokeyshouse's review

4.0
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A memoir of a hapa-haole woman reckoning with her self-loathing that caused her to dismiss and look down on her mother when she was growing up. Brina incorporates historical glimpses of the history of Okinawa as a colonized nation. 

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4.75
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harriettea's review

5.0
"Sometimes I believe the cruelest injustice my mother has had to suffer, surpassing the war that ravaged her homeland, surpassing the poverty [...] is the fact that she can't communicate with her daughter in her native language. The Japanese I don't understand and speak measures the enormity of her inner world that is impenetrable, blocked, hidden from me."