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Speak, Okinawa

Autor Elizabeth Miki Brina
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2022
A "hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity" (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran--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.
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ISBN-13: 9781984898463
ISBN-10: 1984898469
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 201 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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Elizabeth Miki Brina received her MFA in creative writing from the University of New Orleans.  She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Bread Loaf Scholarship and a New York Summer Writers Institute Scholarship.  She currently lives and teaches in New Orleans.

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A daughter born between two cultures - the US and Japan - grapples with the question: where is my home, and how will I recognise it when I reach it?