Author Description

The Story Follows The Trials And Tribulations Of Sugar, A 16 Year-old Aboriginal Fringe-camp Dweller. Set In Darwin During The Japanese Bombing Raids, We Meet Characters Such As: Horatio Humphris (horrid Hump), Chief Protector Of Aborigines, Teetotaller And 42 Year Old Virgin; Ralphie Brown, Who Has The Unedifying Honour Of Being The Only Public Servant To Ever Be Sacked; Drew Hepplewaite, Redneck Racist And Female Patrol Officer Armed With Balls Of Steel; And The Administrator's Wife, Penelope, Who Has A Fetish For Anything Oriental. Then There's Sugar's Mate Nig Nog, Who Teaches Sugar A Few Useful Tricks Of The Trade While They Do Time At The Half-caste Compound; Fuel Drum's Suspicious Death At The Hands Of His Six-month-old Granddaughter, Honey; And Horseshoe With His Wayward And Slutty Wife, Brumby. With The Aboriginal Ordinances Act And The 'white Australia' Policy Set As A Backdrop, Sugar's Resistance To Assimilation And The Attempts By Horrid Hump And His Henchmen To Enforce It Becomes A Protracted Battle That Ends At The Christmas Party From Hell. Interspersed With Illicit Affairs, Stolen Children, Leprosy And Fucking Foreigners, This Story Sees Sugar And Her Oppressors Finally Meet On A Level Playing Field That None Of Them Ever Expected - A Japanese Bombing Raid. 1. Horrid Hump -- 2. Sugar -- 3. Shithole Creek -- 4. Fall From Grace -- 5. Drew -- 6. Reign Of Terror -- 7. Ralphie -- 8. Crash And Burn -- 9. Honey -- 10. In Limbo -- 11. Who Invited Her? -- 12. Next -- 13. Au Contraire -- 14. Crazy Times -- 15. Clover -- 16. Penelope -- 17. Not Quite -- 18. Turning Point -- 19. Chou Chou -- 20. Revenge -- 21. Perfidy -- 22. Oh Fickle Fate -- 23. Prisoners Of War Marie Munkara. English