Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare [Paperback]

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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 Nightmareis a frontrunner for Book of the Year. -Debutiful

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection presents 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 Nightmareis both a fierce love letter to Hawaiian identity and mythology, and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory threatening to erupt with violent secrets.

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From major new storytelling talent MeganKamaleiKakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood. A knockout. Eleven knockouts, one KO for every story. -Elizabeth McCracken

Megan Kamalei Kakimotois a Japanese and Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian) writer from Honolulu, Hawai'i. She has been a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature and has received support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, where she was a Fiction Fellow. She lives in Honolulu.

The contemporary Hawaii of Kakimoto's debut is neither idyllic backdrop nor tragic fable; the stories evoke the land and its intermixlcx