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Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir: A Memoir Prayer they are drawn together asA "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