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Young Mungo
A Literary Fiction Novel by Douglas Stuart
Subgenres:
- LGBTQ+ Romance,
- Working-Class Fiction,
- Glasgow, Scotland
This book is for you if you're into...
- Queer love stories set in gritty Glasgow neighborhoods
- Tension between Protestant and Catholic working-class families
- Hidden sanctuaries like pigeon dovecotes and dreams of escape
A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain.
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. Yet against all odds, they fall in love as they find sanctuary and dream of escape in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds.
But when Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a remote loch with two strange men, he will need all his strength and courage to find his way back to a place where he and James might still have a future.
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