Young Mungo [Paperback]

A story of queer love and working-class families,Young Mungois the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author ofShuggie Bain

A national bestseller, acclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR,Kirkus Reviews,Time, andAmazon, and named a Top 10 Book of the Year by theWashington Post,Young Mungois a brilliantly constructed and deeply moving story of queer love and working-class families by the Booker Prize–winning author ofShuggie Bain. Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars—Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic—and they should be sworn enemies. Yet against all odds, they fall in love as they find sanctuary and dream of escape in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. But when Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a remote loch with two strange men, he will need all his strength and courage to find his way back to a place where he and James might still have a future.

Douglas Stuartis aNew York Timesbestselling author whose work has been translated into over forty languages. His debut novel,Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It was named both the British Book of the Year, and Debut of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards, as well as being a finalist for over twenty other literary awards. His latest novel,Young Mungo, was an international bestseller and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. His essays on gender, class, and conformity have featured onLiterary Huband his short stories are published in theNew Yorker. He is currently working on adapting both of his novels for A24 pictures. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Stuart has a Masters from the Royal College of Art and since 2000, he has lil3“