Asylum, by Isobel Blackthorn
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Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia on a holiday visa. She applies for permanent residency with no hope of success. Resisting advice that she marry to stay in the country, Yvette invests her hopes in a palm-reader's prophecy that she will meet the father of her children before she's thirty. She's twenty-nine. Set in the excoriating heat of an endless Perth summer, against the backdrop of asylum seekers locked in detention, Asylum is a gripping tale of loss and belonging that is dark, absurd and hilarious by turns.
Asylum, by Isobel Blackthorn- Amazon Sales Rank: #2623186 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-17
- Released on: 2015-06-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Isobel Blackthorn was born in London in 1962 and has spent much of her life in Australia. She's also lived in Spain and Lanzarote (Canary Islands). She's been a teacher, market trader, project manager and PA to a literary agent. She has a PhD in Social Ecology. She now lives on the far south coast of New South Wales where she follows her passions for social justice, philosophy, current affairs, books and art.Isobel is the author of a collection of short stories, All Because of You (Ginninderra Press), and the novel, Asylum. Her writing has appeared in e-journals in Australia and the US. Her second novel,The Drago Tree, will be released later in 2015 by Odyssey Books.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Asylum by Isobel Blackthorn A thought provoking Read! Reviewed by Loraine Oliver A Wicked Woman Reviewer By Loraine Oliver Asylum by Isobel Blackthorn was a book I really enjoyed and look forward to reading more by this author. I am getting around to finally reviewing this book even though I finished this book over a month ago, due to being sick.Yvette Grimm, a 29 year old woman has decided to go to Australia to visit on a visa and try to get a citizenship there even though she knows it is practically impossible unless she gets married. So she goes to stay with her mother Isobel and they get along just fine although her mentioning Yvette's sister and comparing the two of them really bothers Yvette.Yvette had a somewhat tragic childhood living with a violent Father and then a broken home after he leaves, and she mainly came to Australia to get away from her boyfriend, Carlos, a likeable man but also a criminal, so she has a lot of issues to deal with, all caused by her own bad choices and being Yvette she rather escape the problems than deal with them, so she takes off to Australia, leaving Malta behind along with Carlos.On top of this she has a tendency to be quite judgmental even though she has so many if not a lot of the same problems as her friends do. Yvette is having a hard time finding her niche in life as she is used to having a man, and functioning without one is quite challenging to Yvette and quite comical at times as well!In this book we see Yvette slowly transforming into a person with a lot more empathy towards others than at the beginning of the book, and she also begins to realize the shallowness her everyday life has been and her problems are ones she created for herself! There may be hope for her yet!I liked the way this author wrote this book and I like how the plot weaves along and things change as the story goes along. I also liked that there were a great cast of characters all well developed that had their place in this book as well. In the end Yvette is more likeable than at the beginning and although her metamorphosis is slow, it is steady and headed in a much better direction than at any other time in her life.I gave this book 5 stars and would like to read more by this author!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A novel that many will love. A tale of young woman dealing with her past, discovering her own worth, making a place for herself By Tracy Joyce Isobel Blackthorn writes well and in the end I really enjoyed this book. I want you to read that first, because I’m about to tell you that I really didn’t like the main character.I struggled initially with this novel, mainly because I felt no empathy with the main character, Yvette. Let there be no misunderstanding, Yvette is a well written character – so believable that I developed a dislike for her.Yvette has experienced tragedy in childhood - a broken home and a violent father who ultimately leaves. She comes to Australia, on a tourist visa, to escape a relationship with a charismatic criminal she met in Malta. Once here she decides she wants to remain in the country.Apart from her childhood, Yvette’s disasters in life are largely self-inflicted. When the reader first meets her she is self-centred, wallowing in self-pity, unable to define herself without a man in her life and looks on the lives of others with derision. Yvette’s characterisation is excellent and I disliked her so much I wanted to stop reading.It is a testament to Blackthorn’s writing that I continued. Slowly, I could see the character evolving and I really wanted to find out how she would grow. Blackthorn takes a character with no personal insight and transforms her into a woman who begins to recognise her own folly and view those around her with more compassion. Yvette is a far more likeable character at the end of the novel than at the beginning. This transformation is done in an entirely believable way and, in the end, it was this that I really enjoyed about the book – the characters.Blackthorn weaves a lovely bunch of supporting characters into Yvette’s life – each with their own tangled little histories and tragedies. They are part of the catalyst for Yvette’s transformation and serve to show the myriad of ways people cope with their past in contrast to how Yvette deals hers.The only negative for me was that I found some sections of the narrative jarring. Commentary on the woeful predicament and fate of the asylum seekers in Australia came across as being the author’s voice rather than the character’s. I felt this could have been better integrated into the story. In fact, I felt there was unexplored potential in this regard.This is a novel that many will love. It is a tale of young woman learning to deal with her past, discovering her own worth and finding the strength to carve out a new place in the world.I ended up not being able to put it down until I had finished.Four Stars.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. What do you do when your life falls apart...run home to mum and seek asylum... By Kelly Haggerty *I would like to thank Odyssey Books via NetGALLEY for giving me an unreleased copy for an honest and fair review.When life does not go the way the Yvette Grimm plans, she seeks asylum in Australia knowing the only way to stay is to get married; as she will not qualify under family unification laws to reunite with her mother and sister. What will happen if she overstays her holiday visa? She is free to roam the country against the backdrop of “legitimate” asylum seekers who have no other place to go and are running for their lives instead of just heartbreak and disappointment in Malta are kept in penal colony like conditions on smaller outer islands from the mainland…?This book rated a 4 for a few reasons. While it was humorous in a sad way at times, it seems that Yvette is destined to stay the same throughout. There is hope that she may do more growing as a character a few times in the book, but she chooses to be herself and remain self-centered and resist change that could be for the better. She chooses to buy into a prediction made by a fortune teller that makes the choices she makes easier for her and lessen what might have been some responsibility at all in her life. I am not sure this is what the author was going for, but, I am hoping this is not the case.Another aspect that bothers me about the subject matter is that Yvette makes all the right noises about caring for the boat people and their actual need for asylum and seeing her own plight as not quite as deserving, however, gets her dander up when she is treated like an “illegal” for not having a state issued medical insurance card. She feels guilty about having the freedom of being on a holiday visa while the boat people are detained and never even see the mainland of Australia on one hand. Then she get quite angry when she is treated the same as any other person with no insurance would be treated by the medical system, so even she sees herself as the same but somehow different.Even with the two exceptions above, the book is quite comical in the way that Yvette acts and sees others and herself. She easily overlooks the log in her eye and is willing to point out the splinter in someone else’s eye. She seems quite willing to overlook the amount of people willing to help her out while feeling quite sorry for herself also, but rallies just in time to let someone else help take care of her. It is a fast read because you cannot wait to see what else she is going to do to further herself from her goals.Is this the novel for you? Do you like your serious subjects with a large grain of salt and a serious side of funny? Do you like to look at topics from a wickedly twisted way that puts normal on its head? Can you watch the main character pass up a number of humorous chances to change for the better and just say not gonna do it? Then this is the one for you.For more reviews[...]
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