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Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
5.0
challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

jarring and brutally honest re experiencing of her life and her perceptions and feelings. what it’s like to know and not know where you come from and who you are. the history of okinawa and the struggle and injustice still prevalent is unruly. i felt joy, despair, rage. i feel for kyoko, elizabeth’s mother, kinuko, my grandmother and all of the uchinaanchu and shimanchu women who left their loving albeit desolate homes in search of a better life. found or unfounded