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Elizabeth Miki Brina
Elizabeth Miki Brina is still looking for where to call home, but wherever that is, she will live there with her literal road dog. She is the author of the memoir Speak, Okinawa.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Work We Do
I can’t believe it took me so long to hold myself accountable for how much my life actually costs. Forty-two feels incredibly, abnormally late to realize that, yes, time is money. And, conversely, money is time—time that someone, somewhere worked.
December 2024
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Missing Ghosts
My father tells me about the ghosts. He tells me about lying on his stomach in a trench and falling asleep and hearing the voice of a friend who had just been killed shouting, “Brina, look out!”
September 2020
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