James and Mungo, the young teens growing up in a bleak, hardscrabble public housing estate in Glasgow in Douglas Stuart’s new book, Young Mungo, live under an ominous specter: in their time and culture (among other things, Mungo’s older brother is a violent gang leader with an image to uphold), two boys falling in love with each other is functionally impossible, certain to call down wrath from all quarters.
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