Young Mungo

Young Mungo is a 2022 novel by Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart, published by Grove Press on 5 April 2022[1] and by Picador on 14 April 2022.[2] It is his second novel, following his Booker Prize-winning debut Shuggie Bain (2020).

Young Mungo
First edition cover
AuthorDouglas Stuart
LanguageEnglish
Publication date
5 April 2022

Premise

15-year-old Mungo lives with his Protestant family in Glasgow. He meets James, a Catholic boy with whom a relationship blossoms.

Critical reception

Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, wrote that "again this author creates characters so vivid, dilemmas so heart-rending, and dialogue so brilliant that the whole thing sucks you in like a vacuum cleaner."[3]

Johanna Thomas-Corr, in her review for The Sunday Times, called it a "rich and affecting group portrait of loneliness", but also "richly abundant" with "colourful characters" and Dickensian with its "moral vision that's expansive and serious while being savagely funny." Thomas-Corr, however, criticized the novel's narrative structure and Stuart for "rearranging the core elements of Shuggie Bain (alcoholism, rape, neglect, homophobia, domestic abuse) with the same family dynamics too."[4]

The novel has been longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.[5] It was selected for The Washington Post's "10 Best Books of 2022" list.[6]

References
  1. Schaub, Michael (20 July 2021). "New Novel by Douglas Stuart Coming in 2022". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  2. Krishnan, Nikhil (23 March 2022). "Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart review: Shuggie Bain grows up, and comes out". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  3. "Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  4. Thomas-Corr, Johanna (27 March 2022). "Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart review — the Shuggie Bain author's new novel". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. "2023 Winners". American Library Association. 11 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  6. "The 10 Best Books of 2022". The Washington Post. 17 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.


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