The Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart talks about his Booker Prize winning Shuggie Bain. The powerful, heartbreaking story of a young boy's love for his addict mother, and a mother's chaotic love for her son. Photo credit: Martyn Pickersgill
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I'm Harriet Gilbert.
Welcome to World Book Club, the program where you get to ask top authors questions about their books.
And the book we've been reading this week is a novel called Shuggie Bain, the story of a young Scottish lad growing up in the 1980s with an abusive, largely absent father and a loving but alcohol addicted mother.