Locks

Locks

By Ashleigh Nugent

Genre:-Contemporary Literary Fiction/Humour

Pages:-352

Blurb:-'1993 was the year that Stephen Lawrence got murdered by racists, and I became an angry Black lad with a "chip on his shoulder"

 Aeon, a mixed-up and mixed-race teenager from a leafy Liverpool suburb, is desperate to understand the Black identity thrust upon him. He grows dreadlocks and immerses himself in 'gangsta' rap. But Aeon's journey of self-discovery is hampered by the fact that the only Black people in his life are his dad and his cousin, Increase.

 Aeon's ambition to find his place in the world take him to Jamaica. Here, Aeon soon finds that smoking loads of weeds, growing messy locks and wearing massive red boots don't necessarily help him to fit in. Within days of his arrival he is mugged, arrested and banged up in a Jamaican detention centre. Seen as the 'White boy'-he finds that his journey of self-discovery has only just begun-and he's going to have to fight for the respect and recognition he deserves...

 A coming-of-age comedy of errors, Locks is an electric debut novel about growing up, wising up, and finding your place in a world of opposites.

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My Review:-Wow what a book. Aeon needs to find himself, growing up mixed race wasn't easy, especially for a 17-year-old. He needs to know who he is, so Increase, his cousin and himself jump on a plane and land in Jamaica, thinking he would get all the answer he needs, how wrong he was. He had to overcome my challenges both good and bad before he could understand just who he was. This story has everything you want from a book and more, real life, honesty, racism, humour, it's moving and powerful. This book is definitely in my top five books of this year.