{"product_id":"every-drop-is-a-mans-nightmare-9781639731169","title":"Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndie Next Pick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom major new storytelling talent Megan \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKamalei\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eKakimoto\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A knockout. Eleven knockouts, one KO for every story.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eElizabeth McCracken\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A stunning debut.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eLaura van den Berg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Throbs with searing talent.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eKali Fajardo-Anstine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"As exquisite as it is terrifying.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eJenny Tinghui Zhang\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMegan 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery Drop Is a Man's Nightmare\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639731169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.45h x 5.82w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Megan Kamalei Kakimoto","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084294193333,"sku":"9781639731169","price":23.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_cae635c8-e165-4973-984e-3054d1086c5f.jpg?v=1692113975","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/every-drop-is-a-mans-nightmare-9781639731169","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}