harriettea 's review for:

Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
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."