It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain má všetky expected more from life. Sme snívaním veľkých things: dom s jeho vlastným predným dverom a život bought and paid for outright (like hier perfektný, ale false, zuby). Ale Agnes is abandoned by jej philandering husband, a some she a jej tri deti hľadali tie zlomené v decimated mining town. Ako she descends deeper do nápoja, deti try ich najlepšie save hier, yet one by one they must abandon hier to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie ktoré holds out hope the longest. Shuggie aj s different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares jeho matka's sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no' right. Ale Shuggie believes that if he tries jeho hardest, he can be normal ako všetky ostatné chlapcov a help jeho matku úniku this hopeless place. Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain berie do úvahy ruthlessness of poverty, limity lásky, a hollowness of pride. A counterpart k privilegované Thatcher-era London Alan Hollinghurst 's Line of Beauty, to tiež hovorí o práci Edouard Louis, Frank McCourt, a Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by brilliant writer s powerful a important story to tell.