GREAT DIVIDES
Apr 03, 2022
2 minutes
by KIRAN DASS
YOUNG MUNGO, by Douglas Stuart (Picador, $38) is published next week.
our years before Douglas Stuart published his debut novel, , which won the Booker Prize in 2020, he had begun writing another novel. That book was . A coming-of-age story of forbidden love, it shares the same tender-hearted raw power, brutality and austere working-class Glaswegian backdrop but Stuart shifts his close exploration of the relationship dynamic between mother and son to queer love and the lasting hurt caused when men are told to “man up”.
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