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Product details
- ISBN 9781803510095
- Weight: 283g
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Sep 2023
- Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A HAUNTING COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT WEAVES HAWAIIAN MYTHOLOGY WITH A RICH SENSE OF PLACE
This 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 colonisation. 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.
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto is a mixed-ethnicity writer of native Hawaiian and Japanese descent. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2015 and is a Fiction Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, where she is one of Elizabeth McCracken's mentees. Her work has been has been featured or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Boulevard, Conjunctions, Joyland, Southern Humanities Review and elsewhere. She also serves as an associate editor for Bat City Review. She has attended the Tin House Writers Workshop and her work has received support from The Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop.
