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marlmar3000 's review for:
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Miki Brina
i saw bits of my grandparents’ story in here so that was what kept me most intrigued — really hated the parts where she put herself in the shoes of okinawans at several points in the book, felt disingenuous without the use of interviews or at least citations of other books/scholars/primary sources. i get being disconnected from your mother & family thru language barrier, but then she didn’t need to include those at all.
i’m not sure why this book frustrated me so much! i had to skim my way through the end, save for the part about them traveling to japan for the first time in a while juxtaposed w her parents in 1975, which was interesting. maybe i just have difficulty reading about someone have so much contempt for their mother even if it’s a perfectly valid emotion to hold and write about.
i’m not sure why this book frustrated me so much! i had to skim my way through the end, save for the part about them traveling to japan for the first time in a while juxtaposed w her parents in 1975, which was interesting. maybe i just have difficulty reading about someone have so much contempt for their mother even if it’s a perfectly valid emotion to hold and write about.