
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
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Michelle Sekine
USA Today Bestseller
A Debutiful “Best Debuts of the Year”
“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
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection presents 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.©2023 Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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I enjoyed this book, and especially enjoyed being about to talk about this book with a group of individuals because some of the context in these stories needed to be explored through mutual conversation.
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“Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare” is a short story collection encompassing women’s issues along with Hawaiian folk tale, fairy tales, superstitions, and of course, Elvis.
I chose the audio version because I wanted to be immersed in the culture by hearing Hawaiian vernacular, including pidgin Hawaiian. I enjoyed listening to narrator Michelle Sekine voicing the collection which vary from Kauai residents displaced by U.S. military bombing drills, the psychological cost of a Brazilian waxing, to a hotel that offers fertility enhancements. The stories are unsettling. Some I didn’t really understand but enjoyed listening to Sekine’s voice.
After the devastating fires in Lahanina occupied my news feeds, these stories hold a particular importance to me. My indigenous Hawaiian friend, Debbie, sparked my interest in Hawaii. This short story collection cemented my fascination.
a fierce short story collection
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