“What good was a soft boy in a hard world?” Shuggie’s older half-brother, Leek, says of the boy as a six-year-old; his love for dancing, playing with dolls, and instinctive aversion to football are quickly identified by those around him as “no right.” His mother, Agnes, is glamorous, charismatic, and an alcoholic, her addiction becoming an all-consuming force that her loved ones must either grapple with or eventually give up on. Shuggie and Agnes are also subject to the brutality of a cast of domineering men whose violence, both physical and emotional, never quite breaks the filial bond at the heart of the story. It’s their shared experience as outsiders that pulls Shuggie most deeply into Agnes’s orbit out of his three siblings, the pair clinging to each other as the book hurtles towards its inevitable conclusion.
In the opening pages of Douglas Stuart’s debut novel, Shuggie Bain, we meet our protagonist at the age of 16. His home is an underheated room in a dank bedsit somewhere in the suburbs of Glasgow, where he works at a supermarket deli counter while dreaming of a future as a hairdresser. Stuart paints a picture of a young man on society’s margins with the eagle-eyed precision of someone who has not just lived it but truly absorbed it, regurgitating its grimier details as he guides readers through the landscape of 1980s postindustrial Scotland and explains how Shuggie arrived here.
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