Hiromo Moto’s The Kappa Child provides an interesting and realistic account of being an immigrant in Canada.  The protagonist fondly reads  Little House on the Prairie and upon my internet research of Hiromo Moto, she too read the book as a young child moving to Alberta. The character finds that the gap between her own experience, and her Laura Ingalls role model is discouraging, with glaring differences in experiences due to racial and ethnic differences. One of those differences highlighted in the fact that the protagonist had a First Nations neighbor and friend, while the depiction of First Nations is quite stereotypical in the Little House on the Praire novels, which making the protagonists expectations quite  different from the reality. When she goes on a racist tirade against her neighbor, she feels like the book had influenced her views, so she burns it. The experience of the protagonist is quite interesting, as 4 sisters of a Japanese Canadian family living in the prairies in Alberta, adapting to and learning about themselves and I really enjoy how the book focuses on the growth of the characters throughout time. The novel plays with fantasy as well, with the protagonist believing herself to be impregnated by the Kappa creature. I also found interesting the dynamic of the family, which was at times quite dysfunctional and dark. The family struggles with an abusive patriarch and stereotypically submissive Asian females. This novel is quite interesting with its depiction of an immigrant family trying to adapt to and make it in a new society and culture.