: ‘Young Mungo’: Douglas Stuart’s novel on working-class Glaswegian adolescent boy and his coming out #IndiaNEWS Douglas Stuart won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2020 for his debut novel Shuggie

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‘Young Mungo’: Douglas Stuart’s novel on working-class Glaswegian adolescent boy and his coming out #IndiaNEWS
Douglas Stuart won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2020 for his debut novel Shuggie Bain, a book where he drew from his own experiences of his childhood in Glasgow – a working-class queer boy raised by a single mother, suffering from alcoholism, followed by her death and prolonged grief.His second novel, Young Mungo, is much more fictional in context, but in many ways, a close cousin to Shuggie Bain. It’s not a sequel per se, but it is part of a common narrative – set in Glasgow in the 1990s, with teenage, queer, tender-hearted male protagonists from similar socio-economic backgrounds, treading into themes of poverty, addiction and toxic masculinity, among others.Who is Mungo?Young Mungo opens with fifteen-year-old Mungo being sent away on a weekend fishing trip by his mother Maureen with two men he barely knows. She hopes these men – whom she had met only a day before at the AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) – will make a man out of her young boy by teaching him to fish, hunt and camp in the wilderness, things that are markers of young boys transitioning into men. Except that the trip has a dark understory of the men sexually assaulting Mungo. As the novel progresses, we gradually learn the things that led Maureen to...Read more

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