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Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa Child takes a daring, yet necessary reflection on Canadian norms, value systems, gender roles, formal policies and overall identity. While weaving the reader through a maze of sci-fi fantasy and reality, Goto presents the story of our Japanese-Canadian protagonist, who struggles through the facets of introspection and self-realization.

What immediately stood out was Goto’s deliberate attempt to examine the Canadian immigrant “experience,” drawing a contrast to that of Canadian born individuals. As we discover the protagonist once lived in British Columbia and is of Japanese-Canadian descent, the reader is instantly prompted to identify the protagonist as a product of the institutional racism inherent in British Columbia’s
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