Every drop is a man's nightmare : stories
Book |
Bloomsbury Publishing,
New York :
2023.
- 3 of 3 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleming - Beamsville | FIC Kakim 2023 | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Grimsby | Fic Kak | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Welland Main | FIC Kakim | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
"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"--
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Details
- ISBN: 9781639731169
- Physical Description: 261 pages ; 22 cmprint
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023