Author Douglas Stuart (whose Shuggie Bain won the Man Booker Prize in 2020) paints a formidable portrait of working-class life in Thatcher-era Scotland, with crisp writing that captures every detail of Mungo’s hardscrabble existence.
But after he meets kindred spirit James, a Catholic boy who loves raising pigeons, an unlikely relationship blossoms between them in spite of their religious differences (not to mention society’s prejudices). Raised in a Protestant family with a gang leader brother and an absent, alcoholic mother, the soft and sensitive 15-year-old Mungo is a total misfit. Set in the macho world of 1980s Glasgow, Young Mungo is a tear-jerking tale of queer love blooming in the most unexpected of places.
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