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The Kappa Child

The Kappa Child

Goto, Hiromi

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Series: Fiction

HorrorGeneral Fiction

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ISBN10: 0889952280
ISBN13: 9780889952287
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Published: Sep 11 2002
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.09 Depth: 7.56
Language: English
Awards: Spectrum Awards

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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