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02053aam a2200289Ii 4500 001 90869E62634411EE8577B53D35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231005010043 008 230818s2023 nyu e 000 j eng d 010 $a bl2023025746 020 $a 1639731164 020 $a 9781639731169 035 $a (OCoLC)1394076893 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $e rda $c FFL $d FFL $d OI6 $d IMD $d LE@ $d SILO 043 $a n-us-hi 100 1 $a Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei, $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections 245 10 $a Every drop is a man's nightmare : $b stories / $c Megan Kamalei Kakimoto. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Publishing, $c [2023] 300 $a 261 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 00 $t The love and decline of the corpse flower. $t Every drop is a man's nightmare -- $t Story of men -- $t Temporary dwellers -- $t Madwomen -- $t Ms. Amelia's Salon for Women in Charge -- $t Hotel Molokai -- $t Aiko, the writer -- $t Some things I know about Elvis -- $t Teach me like one of your island girls: a love story -- $t The love and decline of the corpse flower. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 941 $a 3 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240529010240.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20240316010538.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20231005012224.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=90869E62634411EE8577B53D35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search