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100 1  Brina, Elizabeth Miki,|d1981-|eauthor. 
245 10 Speak, Okinawa :|ba memoir /|cElizabeth Miki Brina. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    289 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso. 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Brina, Elizabeth Miki,|d1981- 
600 10 Brina, Elizabeth Miki,|d1981-|xFamily. 
600 10 Brina, Elizabeth Miki,|d1981-|xTravel|zJapan. 
650  0 Japanese American women|vBiography. 
650  0 Japanese Americans|xEthnic identity. 
650  0 Japanese Americans|vBiography. 
650  0 Ryukyuans|zNew York (State)|vBiography. 
650  0 Intercountry marriage|zNew York (State)|zSyracuse. 
650  0 Racially mixed people|vBiography. 
650  7 Families.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01728849 
650  7 Intercountry marriage.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00976075 
650  7 Japanese American women.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00981435 
650  7 Japanese Americans|xEthnic identity.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00981454 
650  7 Ryukyuans.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01102666 
650  7 Travel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01155558 
650  7 HISTORY / United States / General.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Okinawa-ken (Japan)|vBiography. 
651  7 Japan.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204082 
651  7 Japan|zOkinawa-ken.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01207860 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aBrina, Elizabeth Miki,|tSpeak, Okinawa
       |bFirst edition.|dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021]
       |z9780525657354|w(DLC)  2020030711 
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