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SUMMARY:John of John by Douglas Stuart
LOCATION:Blackbird
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 29% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nFor the next meeting of A Queer Book Club we'll be readin
 g and discussing John of John by Douglas Stuart. From the publisher:\n\nFr
 om the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Shugg
 ie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid\, moving novel following a young man
  returning to his Hebridean island home\, a portrait of a father’s expecta
 tions and a son’s desires\n\nOut of money and with little to show for his 
 art school education\, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the
  Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed exce
 pt for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his c
 hildhood: his father John\, a sheep farmer\, tweed weaver\, and lay preach
 er in the local Presbyterian church\, and his maternal grandmother Ella\, 
 a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the s
 udden departure of his mother.\n\nCal privately wonders if any lonely men 
 might be found on the barren hillsides of home\, while John is dismayed by
  his son’s long hair\, strange clothes\, and seeming unwillingness to be S
 aved. But Cal isn't the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets
 . As lambing season turns to shearing season\, the threads holding togethe
 r the community together become increasingly frayed\, and nothing will rem
 ain as it was before.\n\nJohn of John is a singular novel about duty\, pas
 sion\, and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent lite
 rary work that cements Douglas Stuart's reputation as one of our greatest 
 novelists working today.
URL:https://www.meetup.com/a-queer-book-club/events/315520811/
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