Young Mungo

 My Rating-5/5

Publishing Date-April 2022

  Thanks to Netgalley for providing me the Advanced Review Copy of this book.Having read the debut book of this author 'Shuggie Bain ' which won the pulitzer prize,I was eager to read his second book when I got my hands on it.

This book is even more heartbreaking than Shuggie Bain. Mungo, is the youngest of three kids of an alcoholic women,who ignores her own children to the extent that her character makes you angry and you want to knock some sense into her.

This book also describes the atrocities that the  gay people has to face in society. They have to for the longest time hide their natural tendencies for the sake of societal acceptance. It makes us realize how difficult it must be for them to come out of the closet.

  This book also makes us realize how alcoholism destroys families and how children are made to grow up too soon and they are snatched of their childhood.

This book is a must read for everyone as it will open your eyes and make you think about the taboo topics which are seldom discussed. It  will make you realize how we have failed as a human race and the steps that needs to be taken in order to make the world a better place to live in.