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Ratings: ★★★★☆(4.4/5)
Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Family Saga, Drama

Book Review:
Douglas Stuart's ''Shuggie Bain'' is the heartbreaking and beautiful Booker Prize-winning debut novel set in 1980s post-industrial Glasgow. It tells the story of Hugh ''Shuggie'' Bain, a young boy trying to care for his beautiful but alcoholic mother, Agnes. The novel is an intimate and compassionate portrait of addiction, poverty, and the desperate, unwavering love a child can feel for a broken parent. It's a tender, frightening, and hopeful masterpiece that will leave you gutted and marveling. A first novel of rare and lasting beauty.