Young Mungo

Young Mungo is a 2022 novel by Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart. It was published by Grove Press on 5 April 2022 and by Picador on 14 April 2022. The novel follows Mungo Hamilton, a gay teenager living in early 1990s Glasgow who falls in love with a boy named James and must confront the homophobia, toxic masculinity and religious conflicts of the society of his time. It is Stuart's second novel, following his Booker Prize-winning debut Shuggie Bain (2020). The novel was critically acclaimed and was chosen as one of the books of the year by publications such as The Washington Post, Time, Reader's Digest, The Telegraph and Vanity Fair.