9781639731169
Every drop is a man's nightmare : stories
Book
"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"--
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at OWWL.
Current holds
2 current holds with 2 total copies.Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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Dansville Public Library | FIC KAK (Text) Adult Fiction |
52117300666509 |
Checked out 10/13/2023 |
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This copy is new and can only be picked up at this library. | ||||
Naples Library | 808.8 KAK (Text) Chadwick Collection |
52124300449936 |
Available - |
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This copy is new and can only be picked up at this library. | ||||
Chadwick Collection | ||||