The Kappa Child
James Tiptree, Jr. Award winner 2001, Sunburst Award nominee 2002.
From the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Carribean and Canadian Region and was the 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.
Hiromi Goto
Hiromi Goto (born 1966) is a Canadian novelist.
Born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, her family emigrated to Canada in 1969, settling in British Columbia. She studied at the University of Calgary and now lives in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Goto's first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms (1994), won a 1995 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was co-winner of the 1996 Canada-Japan Book Award. Her novel The Kappa Child won the Tiptree Award for gender-bending science fiction.
From September 2008 to May 2009, Goto was the Writer in Residence at Simon Fraser University.