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.