THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR "HISTORIA DE SHUGGIE BAIN" RETURNS.
At fifteen years old, Mungo, a youth with a sensitivity unlike the other boys in the neighborhood, lives in a working-class district of post-Thatcher Glasgow, within a Protestant family: fatherless, with an alcoholic mother and a brother who embodies everything he hates. In a male-dominated environment, surrounded by unemployment and street fights, he only has the support and care of his sister, Jodie. After a family quarrel, his mother decides to send Mungo fishing with two strangers from Alcoholics Anonymous so they can make a useful man of him. On the way to a lake in western Scotland with these strangers whose drunken jokes hide a troubled past, Mungo only thinks about returning to his friend James’s side, the only place where he has found he can be himself.
Douglas Stuart brings us, with lyrical and vivid prose, the dangerous first love between two teenagers in this clear-sighted and moving story about the meaning of manhood and duty to family, the violences faced by queer identities, and the risks of loving someone too much.
