Everything you need to understand or teach Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto.
In Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's short story collection Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare, 11 distinct characters work to reconcile their ancestral pasts with their present selves. Whether the characters are attempting to ignore their parents' tales or to invent life-saving tales of their own, Kakimoto's narrators and protagonists are all on journeys towards self-actualization. Told from a range of points of view and largely set in locations throughout Hawaii, the collected short stories explore themes including identity, femininity, and loneliness.