Asboville By Danny Rhodes Published by Maia Press 224 pages Price 8.99 ISBN 1 904 55922 0
When 16-year-old JB is served with an antisocial behaviour order (Asbo), his mother packs him off to a remote seaside resort to spend the summer with his uncle. Here JB must paint 87 beach huts, one every day.
Asboville is Danny Rhodes' debut novel and is a lyrical and moving depiction of modern teenage angst in contemporary Britain. Rhodes is particularly sympathetic to JB's uphill struggle: his novel implies that life is tough when you are born on the wrong side of the tracks and that the ritual humiliation of Asbos only serves to divide communities and exclude individuals.
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