Bookish eight-year-old Imogene Murakami, nicknamed “Egg,” lives together with her mom and dad and her teenaged sister, Kathy, on an ostrich farm in Bittercreek, Alberta. Egg's older brother Albert has died in an twist of fate, her father has moved to the barn, and her mom beverages to submerge her overwhelming grief. Egg has in basic terms Kathy to seem after and out for her — and Kathy takes the accountability heavily, going after bullies who torment Egg in class, telling her tales whose endings she modifies (she has Anne Frank escaping to the United States and dealing as an actress on Broadway). Kathy goals of break out from the tiny city and the smothering soreness of her mom and dad' grief, and it sort of feels as though she may possibly make it, with assistance from a basketball scholarship. Her ally Stacey makes get away sound like a venture they could adopt jointly. Kathy and Stacey turn into enthusiasts, but if it turns into transparent that Kathy feels she can't depart Egg, Stacey decides to change her allegiance, to show her again on her pal. She begins relationship a boy, and he and his pals torment Kathy, sensing that she isn't whatever they could categorize. The sisters' dating is threatened whilst Egg's instructor reads aloud from Charlotte's internet and Egg herself reads the tip — the particular finish — of The Diary of Anne Frank. How can Egg belief somebody who has lied to her approximately every thing? within the palms of Tamai Kobayashi, Prairie Ostrich is a hot and compelling drama of infrequent perception and virtuoso verve. Kobayashi introduces a clean viewpoint to Canadian literature, mixing actual, cultural, ancestral, and sexual isolation into an account of 1 girl's try and locate her position opposed to schoolyard battles and the mysteries of the grownup international. As Kathy's final 12 months in highschool counts all the way down to an unknown destiny, Egg sits a quiet witness opposed to an enormous prairie canvas. As she watches her relatives resolve, she slowly starts off to gain that now not each tale may have a contented ending.