Young mungo reviews6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() The men were canny enough not to pressure Mungo, not so close to home, not when he could still bolt. 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. He shrugs them off, but she mouths at him to just get going, and he gives up and walks off with them. They look up at the window seeking the mother’s approval as they put their arms around Mungo’s shoulders. Though Glaswegian, they are strangers to him and the neighbourhood. Mungo looks up despairingly, willing his mother to release him from the men. They are going on a camping trip to a lake. The book opens as Mungo looks up at his mother’s window as he passes below with two men. This is a grim but compelling coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy, set over a year in Glasgow. ![]() The author of the Booker-winning Shuggie Bain returns to the streets of Glasgow in his second novel. ![]()
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