دانلود رمان Young Mungo 2022

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart follows the life of fifteen-year-old Mungo Hamilton, growing up in poverty in 1990s Glasgow with an alcoholic mother (Maureen, aka Mo-Maw), a sister Jodie who tries to look after things, and an older brother Hamish who leads a Protestant gang.

Mungo is sensitive, different, and feels pressure to conform to the violent, sectarian environment—he falls in love with James, a Catholic boy from the opposite side of town, which forces him to navigate family expectations, and religious divisions. Stuart alternates between the story of Mungo’s growing romantic relationship with James and the present, which begins with his mother sending him on a “toughening up” fishing trip with two men she met in Alcoholics Anonymous, St. Christopher and Gallowgate.

On the fishing trip, things turn dark: the two men abuse Mungo, and he must rely on his own inner strength to try to survive and escape. Major conflicts build—Hamish’s brutal enforcement of toxic masculinity, the violence of sectarian gang fights, and the risk inherent in Mungo’s queerness in this hostile world. Ultimately, Young Mungo is a painful yet tender coming-of-age and first love story, about identity, survival, and longing for a place of belonging in a society that rejects difference¹.