A young boy makes his way home from school on a public housing estate in Glasgow, Scotland, the setting for Douglas Stuart’s new novel, Young Mungo. Photo: Getty Images
Review |
Young Mungo, Booker Prize winner’s follow-up to Shuggie Bain, is another bleak story of a queer adolescence set in Scotland
- Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for his previous novel, and like it, Young Mungo has as its protagonist a queer Glasgow boy living in poverty and neglect
- When the Mungo of the title falls in love with another neglected teen, we’re given a break from bleakness so all-encompassing as to shroud Stuart’s artistry
A young boy makes his way home from school on a public housing estate in Glasgow, Scotland, the setting for Douglas Stuart’s new novel, Young Mungo. Photo: Getty Images
