Kundiman Hawaiʻi is co-hosting a special preview event of the paperback publication of Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto. This casual celebration will feature readings by “friends” of Every Drop, opportunities for collaborative writing, and conversation around good food and drinks. Kakimoto will be joined by Chris McKinney, Thomas Iannucci, and other local writers.

This event will take place on Saturday, April 12 from 3:00–5:00 PM PT at da Shop: books + curiosities (3565 Harding Ave, Honolulu, HI).

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto is the Japanese and Kanaka Maoli author of the story collection Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare (Bloomsbury 2023), a USA Today national bestseller. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, Joyland, and elsewhere. Named a Fall 2023 “Writer to Watch” by Publisher’s Weekly, she has received the “Author Under 35” Award by the HONOLULU Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature. Her work has been supported by the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Tin House Winter Workshop. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and is an Affiliate Faculty in Fiction at Antioch University Los Angeles and a Lecturer in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. A Fiction Editor for No Tokens journal, she lives in Honolulu.