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Young Mungo

by Douglas Stuart

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Love across Glasgow’s divide

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Love across Glasgow’s divide

Set on a Glasgow housing estate, Young Mungo brings together two teenagers from communities divided by Protestant and Catholic identity. Mungo and James’s relationship takes shape in the shelter of a dovecote, where James keeps his racing pigeons and the pair imagine a life beyond their surroundings. The description also introduces a fishing trip arranged by Mungo’s mother, sending him to a remote loch with two unfamiliar men. The novel’s central threads are queer love, working-class family life, religious division and the search for a possible future amid uncertainty.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in LGBTQ+ fiction centered on a young queer relationship.
  • Readers drawn to stories about working-class families and religious divisions.
  • Readers interested in Glasgow-set fiction and pigeon racing as part of the story’s setting.

Themes

Queer loveWorking-class family lifeProtestant-Catholic divisionEscape and belonging

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Book overview

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

A national bestseller, 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.

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