The Kappa Child

The Kappa Child

Hiromi Goto

Publication
2001

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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.

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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…

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