Why read Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare?

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A HAUNTING COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT WEAVES HAWAIIAN MYTHOLOGY WITH A RICH SENSE OF PLACE

This 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 colonisation. This is a Hawai'i where…

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1 author picked Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Chris McKinney

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I was drawn to this book because, like me, the author was born and raised in Hawaii. I’m not a big reader of short story collections, but this one pulled me in from story one.

The book contains some of the most finely crafted lines I’ve read in years. For example: “Sadie watches the spring of muscles flex and yield under her step-uncles’ undershirts as they plunge their shovels into dirt. She watches the burial of the carcass, then, eight hours later, its resurrection.”

After reading this line early in the first story, I started taking notes, which…

From Chris' 3 favorite reads in 2023.