Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

eBook - 2023

USA Today BestsellerA Debutiful "Best Debuts of the Year""Rich and wise, humming with confidence." -New York Times Book Review"A knockout. Eleven knockouts. One KO for every story."-Elizabeth McCracken"Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare is a frontrunner for Book of the Year." -DebutifulFrom major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood.Megan 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 sexuali...ty and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take... more