The novel follows Mungo Hamilton, a gay teenager living in early 1990s Glasgow who falls in love with a boy named James and must confront the homophobia, toxic masculinity and religious. It was published by Grove Press on 5 April 2022 and by Picador on 14 April 2022. It is going to get used, on whom being the only question. Young Mungo is a 2022 novel by Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart. Likewise, when Hamish gives Mungo a knife it conforms to the Chekhov gun principle.

Honest to God, by page 14 I noted that this rural jaunt is going to end in rape. They promise “a proper boy’s weekend” to “make a man of you yet”. The two men have “slitted eyes” and their “hands ferreted inside their trouser pockets as they pulled their ball sacks from their thighs”. We open with Mungo being sent off with two strangers for a long weekend in the countryside, to learn fishing and lighting fires and snaring rabbits.

It creates a narrative hook (why is this happening now, and what had led to it, and what shall be the consequences?) The problem here, however, is that marketing and structure are undercutting each other. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 2928377083625 Number of pages: 400 Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. With echoes of Shuggie Bain, the main character here is Mungo, a 15-year-old gay teenager, coming of age in an environment where any deviation from a narrowly defined masculinity is perilous. It is a method – “in media res”, “in the middle of things” – which is traditional and highly effective. Young Mungo is Douglas Stuart's return to Glasgow's east end, this time in the immediate aftermath of Thatcherism. That however comes later in the arrangement of the novel but chronologically before the beginning of it.

Young mungo by douglas stuart