Fans of the Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain can rejoice— internationally bestselling author Douglas Stuart has returned with Young Mungo, a stirring tale set in Glasgow, full of moments both tender and stark. This is another immersive, transformative read, “full of sentences that gleam and shimmer, demanding to be read and reread for their beauty and their truth” (The Guardian). In a rich conversation with Festival friend and author of The Rebellious Tide, Eddy Boudel Tan, Stuart will discuss the origins of these stories, the nuanced complexity of writing poverty and violence, and the reception of these remarkable works.