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Young Mungo in Bloomington, MN
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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
Acclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR,
Kirkus Reviews
,
Time
, and
Amazon
, and named a Top 10 Book of the Year by the
Washington Post
is a brilliantly constructed and deeply moving story of queer love and working-class families by the Booker Prize–winning author of
. 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.
Young Mungo
is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of
Shuggie Bain
Acclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR,
Kirkus Reviews
,
Time
, and
Amazon
, and named a Top 10 Book of the Year by the
Washington Post
is a brilliantly constructed and deeply moving story of queer love and working-class families by the Booker Prize–winning author of
. 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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