Elizabeth Miki Brina
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large type) : illustrations (black & white), portraits, photographs ; 22 cm
Description
"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...