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John of John
A Literary Fiction Novel by Douglas Stuart
Subgenres:
- LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction,
- Family Drama,
- Scottish Highlands and Islands
This book is for you if you're into...
- Island homecomings that stir up old wounds and new secrets
- Fraught father-son relationships set against wild Scottish landscapes
- Queer longing woven through rural tradition and family expectation
From Little Stack
After attending art school, Cal returns home to an island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides to face his complicated relationship with his father, John, a sheep farmer and preacher. Cal has been close to his grandmother since losing his mother, but he hides his sexuality. John, meanwhile, disapproves of Cal’s clothes and lack of devout faith.
If you’re drawn to gorgeous prose or Scottish settings, you’ll be riveted by how the book’s father-son dynamic shifts when changes come to their island community in this Oprah’s Book Club pick from a Booker Prize-winning author.
From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires.
Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the sudden departure of his mother.
Cal privately wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son’s long hair, strange clothes, and seeming unwillingness to be Saved. But Cal isn't the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets. As lambing season turns to shearing season, the threads holding together the community together become increasingly frayed, and nothing will remain as it was before.
John of John is a singular novel about duty, passion, and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent literary work that cements Douglas Stuart's reputation as one of our greatest novelists working today.
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