Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

Every Drop Is a Man's NightmareMegan 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

Mia and her mom and aunties head to the city to be by her grandmother's side

learn judo

In the 1950s

" Confronting the harmful stereotype of the "lazy

Detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Chris Pierson are summoned to investigate

Barnd creatively and persuasively uses original cartographic research and demographic data

too bored to even fly

It was one of the organization's first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case

The resistance continues

allowing for possibilities for reimagined readings along the way

and linguistics

developing new relationships with non-Native governments