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Author Brina, Elizabeth Miki, 1981- author.

Title Speak, Okinawa : a memoir / Elizabeth Miki Brina.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
©2021

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY BRINA    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B BRINA, ELIZABETH MIKI    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B BRINA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO BRINA    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.4889 BRINA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Biography  B-BRINA BRI    Missing
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Biography  B-BRINA BRI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 BRINA, ELI    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B BRINA, E.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B BRINA    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note "This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood and adolescence. Yet, even though she felt almost no connection to her mother's distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers. Decades later, Elizabeth comes to recognize the shame and self-loathing that haunt both her and her mother, and attempts a form of reconciliation, not only to come to terms with the embattled dynamics of her family but also to reckon with the injustices that reverberate throughout the history of Okinawa and its people. Clear-eyed and profoundly humane, Speak, Okinawa is a startling accomplishment--a heartfelt exploration of identity, inheritance, forgiveness, and what it means to be an American"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Brina, Elizabeth Miki, 1981-
Brina, Elizabeth Miki, 1981- -- Family.
Brina, Elizabeth Miki, 1981- -- Travel -- Japan.
Japanese American women -- Biography.
Japanese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Japanese Americans -- Biography.
Ryukyuans -- New York (State) -- Biography.
Intercountry marriage -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.
Racially mixed people -- Biography.
Okinawa-ken (Japan) -- Biography.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Intercountry marriage. (OCoLC)fst00976075
Japanese American women. (OCoLC)fst00981435
Japanese Americans -- Ethnic identity. (OCoLC)fst00981454
Ryukyuans. (OCoLC)fst01102666
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
Japan -- Okinawa-ken. (OCoLC)fst01207860
HISTORY / United States / General.
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Brina, Elizabeth Miki, Speak, Okinawa First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021] 9780525657354 (DLC) 2020030711
ISBN 9780525657347 (hardcover)
0525657347 (hardcover)
9780525657354 electronic book
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