From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing,
bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and
womanhood.
"A knockout. Eleven knockouts, one KO for every story."-Elizabeth
McCracken
"A stunning debut."-Laura van den Berg
"Throbs with searing talent."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine
"As exquisite as it is terrifying."-Jenny Tinghui Zhang
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 (...)
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto is a Japanese and Kanaka Maoli (native
Hawaiian) writer from Honolulu, Hawai'i. Her fiction has been featured in
Granta, Conjunctions, Joyland, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the
Keene Prize for Literature and has received support from the Rona Jaffe
Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She received her MFA
from the Michener Center for Writers, where she was a Fiction Fellow. She
lives in Honolulu.
Bloomsbury
On Sale: Aug 29/23
5.51 x 8.25 • 272 pages
9781639731169 • $36.99 • CL - With dust jacket
Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)