![]() ![]() Mo-Maw could tell they were itchy to be gone – these narrow streets didn't like unknown faces – and she could see it took patience not to goad her boy on. They shared a sigh and a glance and a chuckle, before putting down their bags and lighting cigarettes. Go! she mouthed again and took a swally of the cold tea. This was all for his own good and yet he dared stare up at her with a doleful look. ![]() He would do anything just to make other people feel better. As his mother watched him through the ear-of-wheat pattern of the net curtains, she tried to convince herself that his twitch was a happy wink, a lovely Morse code that telegraphed everything would be okay. Turning back, Mungo squinted up at the tenement flat, and his eyes began to twitch with one of their nervous spasms. ![]() It was such an assertive gesture that it took everyone by surprise. Unable to accept her son's sexual orientation, Mungo's alcoholic mother sends him off on a fishing trip with two men from her AA meeting, who promise to make a man out of him.Īs they neared the corner, Mungo halted and shrugged the man's hand from his shoulder. The Booker Prize-winning author of "Shuggie Bain," Douglas Stuart, returns with his latest novel, "Young Mungo," about a 15-year-old boy falling in love for the first time in a violently homophobic community. ![]()
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