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Every drop is a man's nightmare : stories / Megan Kamalei Kakimoto.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 261 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781639731169
  • 1639731164
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A catalogue of Kānaka superstitions, as told by your mother -- Every drop is a man's nightmare -- Story of men -- Temporary dwellers -- Madwomen -- Ms. Amelia's Salon for Women in Charge -- Hotel Molokai -- Aiko, the writer -- Some things I know about Elvis -- Teach me like one of your island girls: a love story -- The love and decline of the corpse flower.
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.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction KAKIMOTO MEGAN Available 33111011321524
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

USA Today Bestseller
"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 Nightmare is a frontrunner for Book of the Year." -- Debutiful

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto , a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood.

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.

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'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.

A catalogue of Kānaka superstitions, as told by your mother -- Every drop is a man's nightmare -- Story of men -- Temporary dwellers -- Madwomen -- Ms. Amelia's Salon for Women in Charge -- Hotel Molokai -- Aiko, the writer -- Some things I know about Elvis -- Teach me like one of your island girls: a love story -- The love and decline of the corpse flower.

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