Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781922142122
Year: 2014
Publisher: Magabala Books


Description:


Calypso Summer is a story told by Calypso, a young Nukunu man, fresh out of high school in Rastafarianguise. After failing to secure employment in sports retail, his dream occupation, Calypso finds work at theHenley Beach Health Food shop where his boss pressures him to gather Aboriginal plants for natural remedies.Growing up in urban Adelaide and with little understanding of his mother's traditional background, Calypsoendeavours to find the appropriate native plants.This leads him to his Nukunu family in the southern Flinders Ranges and thediscovery of a world steeped in cultural knowledge. The support of a sassy, smart, young Ngadjuri girl, with apassion for cricket rivalling his own, helps Calypso to reconsider his Rastafarian façade and understand howto take charge of his future.