An Indie Next Pick
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's 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. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare is both a love letter to Hawaiian identity and mythology and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory threatening to erupt.