THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR "HISTORIA DE SHUGGIE BAIN" RETURNS.
At fifteen, Mungo, a teenager with a sensitivity different from the other boys in the neighborhood, lives in a working-class district of post-Thatcher Glasgow, in a Protestant family: fatherless, with an alcoholic mother, and a brother who represents everything he hates. In a masculinized environment, surrounded by unemployment and street fights, he only has the support and care of his sister, Jodie. After a family altercation, his mother decides to send Mungo fishing with two strangers from Alcoholics Anonymous to make a man of him. On the way to a lake in western Scotland with these strangers whose drunken jokes hide a troubled past, Mungo only thinks about returning to his friend James, the only place where he has discovered he can be himself.
Douglas Stuart brings us, with lyrical and vivid prose, the dangerous first love between two teenagers in this clear-eyed and moving story about the meaning of masculinity and duty to family, the violences faced by queer identities, and the risks of loving someone too much.
