Young Mungo - Douglas Stuart

Young Mungo

By Douglas Stuart

  • Release Date: 2022-04-05
  • Genre: LGBTQIA+ Fiction
Score: 4.5
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Description

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

Acclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Time, and Amazon, and named a Top 10 Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Young Mungo is a brilliantly constructed and deeply moving story of queer love and working-class families by the Booker Prize–winning author of Shuggie 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.

Reviews

  • I hated it. I loved it. I’ll never forget it

    5
    By Jessely!
    I wasn’t sure where this book was going in the beginning. It has a very slow start as it lays the groundwork for what is to come. After that, however, it’s incredibly engaging, yet sometimes very difficult to read, as Mungo goes through some horrific ordeals. There were certain points where I was sure I wasn’t going to be able to finish the book. I’m glad I did, though. Probably one of the most memorable books I’ve ever read. Insightful and heartbreaking.

  • Mungo

    4
    By sthorsteins
    The ending left me needing more! A page turner 100%

  • Emotional

    5
    By jwatson26
    This book is really good and emotional. Highly recommend

  • I couldn’t stop reading

    5
    By DSEATTLE85
    PowerfulAF. Sexual violence happens so if that’s a trigger for you here’s your warning.

  • Tender and breathtakingly brutal

    5
    By Fin C Gray
    I had high expectations of this book based on my thorough enjoyment of Shuggie Bain. I was not disappointed. The richly drawn characters and authentic sense of place and time carried the well constructed narrative high on their shoulders. I look forward to whatever Douglas Stuart delivers next. And if he wants to turn Mungo’s later adventures into a follow up, I would love to read whatever happens next

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