Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart [in Booklist]
27 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Repost
Seventeen-and-a-half-hours is a long, lonnnnnng commitment, and Scottish actor Angus King takes on his fellow Glaswegian Douglas Stuart’s resonating debut with meticulous devotion. While the title belongs to young Shuggie Bain, who comes of age in the poorest neighborhoods around Glasgow in the 1980s, the narrative...