TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Jared
TI  - Calypso summer
SN  - 9781922142122 (paperback)
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Broome, W.A.
PB  - Magabala Books
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - South Australia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Nyunga (Australian people)
KW  - Young men
KW  - Australia
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - lcsh
N2  - Calypso Summer is a story told by Calypso, a young Nukunu man, fresh out of high school in Rastafarian guise. After failing to secure employment in sports retail, his dream occupation, Calypso finds work at the Henley 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, Calypso endeavours to find the appropriate native plants. This leads him to his Nukunu family in Port Augusta and the discovery of a world steeped in cultural knowledge
ER  -