Praise for Young Mungo:

Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award

Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Time, Kirkus Reviews, Guardian, Amazon, Apple, BookPage, BookBrowse, Library Journal, Reader's Digest, AARP, Hudson Booksellers, Chicago Public Library, and the Times (UK)

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Shortlisted for Scotland's National Book Award

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by the New York Times, Time, Vogue, Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, Irish Times, Kirkus Reviews, and Literary Hub

"Young Mungo seals it: Douglas Stuart is a genius . . . A tale of romantic and sexual awakening punctuated by horrific violence. . . . The raw poetry of Stuart's prose is perfect to catch the open spirit of this handsome boy . . . Stuart quickly proves himself an extraordinarily effective thriller writer. He's capable of pulling the strings of suspense excruciatingly tight while still sensitively exploring the confused mind of this gentle adolescent trying to make sense of his sexuality . . . But even as Stuart draws these timelines together like a pair of scissors, he creates a little space for Mungo's future, a little mercy for this buoyant young man."-Ron Charles, Washington Post

"[A] bear hug of a new novel . . . It's a classic Dickensian arc: The unwanted young lad, hoping for better things, is caught up in broader violent schemes and made to choose between the life he wants for himself and the one set out before him . . . But novelists have been flaccidly imitating the 19th century realists for so long that it's a shock when one carries it out this successfully. Stuart oozes story. Mungo is alive. There is feeling under every word . . . This novel cuts you and then bandages you back up."--Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times

"The working-class 1980s Glasgow of Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize-winning debut Shuggie Bain is again the setting of his follow-up Young Mungo, and with it come the violence, religious tribalism, economic depression, diehard loyalties and fatalistic humor of the era, all expressed in the crooked poetry of Glaswegian dialect . . . The crafted storylines in Young Mungo develop with purpose and converge explosively, couching all the horror and pathos within a tighter, more gripping reading experience--an impressive advancement, in other words, from an already accomplished author."--Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal

"A nuanced and gorgeous heartbreaker of a novel . . . It's a testament to Stuart's unsparing powers as a storyteller that we can't possibly anticipate how very badly--and baroquely--things will turn out. Young Mungo is a suspense story wrapped around a novel of acute psychological observation. It's hard to imagine a more disquieting and powerful work of fiction will be published anytime soon about the perils of being different."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"Young Mungo bridges the worlds of Stuart's earlier novel and stories . . . Stuart writes beautifully, with marvelous attunement to the poetry in the unlovely and the mundane . . . The novel conveys an enveloping sense of place, in part through the wit and musicality of its dialogue."--Yen Pham, New York Times Book Review

"Young Mungo is a finer novel than its predecessor, offering many of the same