num_pages: 280
description: 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...
  James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award for Science Fiction and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winner, 2001Sunburst Award Nomination for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, 2002

language: English
title: The Kappa Child
titlecomplete: The Kappa Child
genres: Magical Realism, LGBT, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Lesbian, Japanese Literature, Canada, Fiction, Science Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 330
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Sunburst Award
category: Canadian Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Gaylactic Spectrum Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
publisher: Red Deer Press