May-June Book Club – Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare!

Our “Final Fridays” Book Club had to get readjusted due to a very busy May and an end-of-June vacation, so we’ll be gathering on Saturday, June 21st to discuss Every Drop Is A Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto. No spoilers- but we really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to dig into it with y’all. At our last book club, folks asked about potlucking so we’ll bring some snacks- feel free to bring something small to share if you’re so inclined (but no pressure). Pick up a copy in-person ahead of time at the shop!

About Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare:

Megan 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.

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.

Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare 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.