Reviews - Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

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Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

Elizabeth Miki Brina

4.24 AVERAGE

caelyn_es's review

5.0

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

joannemiro1948's review against another edition

challenging emotional

This memoir tells about the author’s life and how she struggled to find herself. It also tells some of the history of Okinawa and that country’s relationship to other countries (China, Japan, the US) that have occupied it throughout its history. This memoir holds a light up to several issues including white privilege, US foreign relations, and basic overall respect (for others as well as for self). I listened to the audiobook version of this book and liked it so much that I may have to read the physical version of it at some point in order to catch things I may have missed.