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Local DescriptionDescription: In Hawaii, a cast of women reckon with physical and emotional alienation, and the toll it takes on their psyches. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (boar) on the haunted Pali highway portends one woman's increasingly fraught relationship with her body during pregnancy. A woman recalls an uncanny experience, in which Elvis impersonators take centre stage, to an acquaintance who doesn't yet know just how intimately they're connected. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in the giant corpse flower a mourner has gifted her. Review: In Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare, the enormously talented Megan Kakimoto gives us her Hawai'i, as bright as blood, as dark as blood. It's a book about beauty and brutality, love and threat, home and estrangement, as original and fearless a book as I've read in years. It does not pull its punches; it's altogether a knockout. Eleven knockouts, one KO for every story -- Elizabeth McCracken, author of THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM
Author Biography: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto is a mixed-ethnicity writer of native Hawaiian and Japanese descent. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2015 and is a Fiction Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, where she is one of Elizabeth McCracken's mentees. Her work has been has been featured or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Boulevard, Conjunctions, Joyland, Southern Humanities Review and elsewhere. She also serves as an associate editor for Bat City Review. She has attended the Tin House Writers Workshop and her work has received support from The Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop. DescriptionA stunning collection of stories that weaves Hawaiian mythology with a vivid fabulism and rich sense of place. |