num_pages: 272
description: From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto a blazing bodily raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood. A knockout. Eleven knockouts one KO for every story.-Elizabeth McCrackenMegan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth.A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (pig) on the haunted Pali highway portends one young woman's fraught relationship with her pregnant body. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in a giant flower. A kanaka writer mid-manuscript feels her raw pages quaking and knocking in the briefcase.Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare is both a fierce love letter to Hawaiian identity and mythology and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory threatening to erupt with violent secrets.
language: English
title: Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing