Un lugar para Mungo

At fifteen, Mungo, a teenager with a sensitivity different from the rest of the boys in the neighbourhood, lives in a working-class neighborhood in Glasgow in the post-Thatcher era, in the bosom of a Protestant family: without a father, with an alcoholic mother and a brother who represents everything he hates. In a masculinized environment, surrounded by unemployment and street fights, he only has the support and care of his sister, Jodie. After a family dispute, his mother decides to send Mungo fishing with two strangers from Alcoholics Anonymous so they can make a useful man out of him. On his way to a loch in the west of Scotland with these strangers whose drunken pranks hide a murky past, Mungo thinks only of returning to his friend James, the one place he's discovered he can be himself. Douglas Stuart brings us closer, with vivid and lyrical prose, to the dangerous first love between two teenagers in this lucid and moving story about the sense of masculinity and duty to the family, the violence faced by queer identities and the risks of loving someone too much.