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Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto


  • Granta (Faber)
  • by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
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.

ISBN 9781803510095 | EN | TPB
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Publisher Granta (Faber)
ISBN 9781803510095
Author(s) Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Publication date September 2023
Edition Trade Pb
Dimensions 216 x 135 mm
Pages 272
Language(s) English ed.
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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.