Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart • 2020
Devastation Rating
poverty addiction family grief literary fiction loss
Our Take
Shuggie loves his mother and his mother is an alcoholic and Glasgow in the 1980s is a city being hollowed out. Stuart writes poverty and addiction and a boy's devotion with no distance whatsoever. Agnes Bain is one of the most devastating characters in contemporary fiction — beautiful, destructive, and impossible to leave.
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