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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... nose holes . " " I don't ! " she gasped , touching the tip of her fingers to the rims of her nostrils . When she felt crusty rings caked on her skin , she desperately picked with her fingernails . " I hate this place , " she wob- bled ...
... nose . . " It'll cost extra for a cot . $ 37.50 plus tax . " . Dad considered . The motel man stared at my big head some more . I picked my nose , as far as my fat finger would go . " You take a cheque , " Dad stated . Okasan squirmed ...
... nose . Dad booted her in the butt and pointed back to the house . Her wailing all the way . The soil at the Snyders ' was almost pleasant to dig through , moist , dark , and easy to turn over . But after crossing the fence , the ground ...