![]() It’s a beautiful novel about family love and the dangers of being different in a violent, hyper-masculine world. As his editor, Peter Blackstock, notes, “ Young Mungo is an extraordinary novel, a book that will live up to the very high expectations set by Shuggie Bain-and even exceed them. ![]() citizenship and was thus eligible for both accolades he lives with his husband in Manhattan.) There’s no sophomore slump here: Young Mungo is, if anything, a richer story, confirming Stuart’s emerging status as a consummate stylist. A finalist for the National Book Award, it won the prestigious Booker Prize. Stuart’s debut, Shuggie Bain, hit readers and critics like a thunderbolt out of a blue sky, a piercing portrait of an impoverished boyhood in 1980s Glasgow and the protagonist’s struggles with an alcoholic mother. ![]() The spare yet elegant composition-an adolescent boy photographed from underwater, his face bisected by the waterline, mouth and nose immersed-suggests an innocent adrift in an undertow, not waving but drowning. In an exclusive announcement, Oprah Daily is revealing the new cover for Douglas Stuart’s second novel, Young Mungo, which Grove Press is publishing in April 2022. ![]()
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