Bibliograph

Every drop is a man's nightmare, stories, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Type

Label

Every drop is a man's nightmare, stories, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Every drop is a man's nightmare

Oclc number

1394076893

Responsibility statement

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Sub title

stories

Summary

"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 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"--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

Classification