In this regard, it’s more reminiscent of the author’s earliest published work. But where “Shuggie Bain ” centered on the devotion of a son to his radiant, self-destructive mother, “Young Mungo” is about another strain: first love across sectarian lines. Like “Shuggie Bain,” Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize-winning first novel, “Young Mungo” has a lived-in understanding of the textures of life with an alcoholic parent, and mothers with misplaced conviction in the masculinizing effects of fishing trips. When 15-year-old Mungo and his brother Hamish speed through central Glasgow in a car the latter has been paid to steal, the neighborhoods are new to Mungo he has barely traveled beyond the confines of a few narrow streets.
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