{"product_id":"every-drop-is-a-mans-nightmare-paperback","title":"Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMegan Kamalei Kakimoto\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\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\u003eMegan 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. \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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan Kamalei Kakimoto\u003c\/b\u003e is a Japanese and Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian) writer from Honolulu, Hawai'i. She has been a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature and has received support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, where she was a Fiction Fellow. She lives in Honolulu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263814385913,"sku":"9781639734634","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/EgYlNf-Kpd9781639734634.webp?v=1768822592","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/every-drop-is-a-mans-nightmare-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}