{"id":61044,"date":"2021-07-13T21:18:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61044"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:37:19","slug":"speak-okinawa-a-memior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61044","title":{"rendered":"Speak, Okinawa: A Memior"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speak, Okinawa: A Memior<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Knopf<\/a> (an imprint of Penguin Randomhouse<\/a>)
\n2021-02-23
\n304 Pages
\n5-5\/8 x 8-1\/4
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780525657347
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781984898463
\nEbook ISBN: 9780525657354
\nAudiobook ISBN: 9780593348925<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Miki Brina<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman\u2019s journey to understanding her complicated parents\u2014her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam<\/a> veteran\u2014and her own, fraught cultural heritage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elizabeth\u2019s mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa<\/a> 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<\/a> 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\u2019s distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> is a startling accomplishment\u2014a heartfelt exploration of identity, inheritance, forgiveness, and what it means to be an American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman\u2019s journey to understanding her complicated parents\u2014her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran\u2014and her own, fraught cultural heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,395,11,17,20],"tags":[31580,31582,13471,5098,31581],"class_list":["post-61044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-books","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-elizabeth-miki-brina","tag-japanj","tag-knopf","tag-okinawa","tag-penguin-randomhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61076,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61044\/revisions\/61076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}