Stephen Poltz's Reviews > The Kappa Child

I’ve never read any of the “Little House on the Prairie” books but I understand the general gist from having seen a few episodes of the TV series back in my youth. They represent a child’s view growing up in prairie homesteading days written for children. The main, unnamed character of “The Kappa Child” is a bit obsessed with the book. So when her Canadian family of Japanese descent moves from the lush metropolitan Vancouver, BC to the Canadian prairie, of course she’s going to compare and refer a lot to her favorite book. But the worlds couldn’t be any more different, with her father’s dream of growing rice rather than something that would actually flourish. And her father is abusive to the children and the mother.

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