{"product_id":"every-drop-is-a-mans-nightmare-megan-kamalei-kakimoto-9781639731169","title":"Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eDebutiful \u003c\/i\u003e\"Best Debuts of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Rich and wise, humming with confidence.\" -\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A knockout. Eleven knockouts. One KO for every story.\"-Elizabeth McCracken\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEvery Drop Is a Man's Nightmare \u003c\/i\u003eis a frontrunner for Book of the Year.\" -\u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e\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\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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49925497880769,"sku":"9781639731169","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9781639731169.jpg?v=1769103305","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/every-drop-is-a-mans-nightmare-megan-kamalei-kakimoto-9781639731169","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}