The Kappa Child"James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award for Science Fiction and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winner, 2001 Sunburst Award Nomination for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, 2002" From the award-winning author of "Chorus of Mushrooms," which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canadian Region and was co-winner of the Canada Japan Book Award, "The Kappa Child" is the tale of four Japanese Canadian sisters struggling to escape the bonds of a family and landscape as inhospitable as the sweltering prairie heat. In a family not at all reminiscent of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, four Japanese-Canadian sisters struggle to escape the bonds of a family and landscape as inhospitable as the sweltering prairie heat. Their father, moved by an incredible dream of optimism, decides to migrate from the lush green fields of British Columbia to Alberta. There, he is determined to deny the hard-pan limitations of the prairie and to grow rice. Despite a dearth of both water and love, the family discovers, through sorrow and fear, the green kiss of the Kappa Child, a mythical creature who blesses those who can imagine its magic... |
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... lean sausage . At least , that's how I like it . People eat it in Germany . " " Kale , " I shake my head . " Where'd you ever taste that to crave it ? " " I read it in a book , " Bernie grins with one side of her mouth . " So , how ...
... lean into the curve of her arm all the same . No pride left . And it doesn't matter . Midori grips tight with her hand , reaches with her other arm , circles me to the lean warmth of her body . Hiccup , I think , what a time to hiccup ...
... lean shad- ow and I try inconspicuously to peer around her . " I'm here too , " Genevieve breathes and I sigh , despite myself . " What do a couple of girls have to do to get invited in ? " “ Oh , ” is all I manage , move to one side so ...