** ** 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 sexuality and generational memory
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
β Scribed by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
- Book ID
- 112874972
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781639731176
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Indie Next Pick
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 McCracken
"A stunning debut."-Laura van den Berg
"Throbs with searing talent."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine
"As exquisite as it is terrifying."-Jenny Tinghui Zhang
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 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...
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