over the definitely inferior Interior Chinatown) debut novel, was my favorite book of 2020, and unless I read something truly astonishing in the next 5 days, his second book is destined to appropriately be my favorite book of this rather bleak year. Shuggie Bain, Stuart's Booker winning (and SHOULD have been NBA winning. If only I could, I would give this many more than 5 stars - heartbreaking, breathtaking and very memorable. His essays on Gender, Class and Anxiety are featured on Lit Hub.īorn in Glasgow, Scotland, after receiving his MA from the Royal College of Art in London, he has lived and worked in New York City.įollow him on instagram at Douglas_Stuart or Twitter at Doug_D_Stuart His short stories have been published by The New Yorker. His second novel, Young Mungo, was a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Shuggie Bain was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the Pen Hemingway Award, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, The Rathbones Folio, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. It was also Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. It won the Sue Kaufman award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Book of the Year, and the Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2021.

His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, is the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize. His work has been translated into 39 languages.

Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.ĭouglas Stuart is a Scottish - American author. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds.Īs they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. 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 if they're to be seen as men at all.

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