Speak, OkinawaBy: Elizabeth Miki Brina A hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parentsher mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteranand 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