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“It’s gratifying that people have been able to break it and understand the I’ll put you in the trunk and help people look for you shirt and by the same token and love, the hope, and the humanity in the characters, but it makes me a little blue sometimes when I see how relevant the book is today,” says Stuart. The intense interest in the book, particularly in Britain, is due in part to its worrying parallels with the present day. From the lack of government oversight that led to a deadly fire at Grenfell Tower, a high-rise London council block, back in 2017 to the government’s reluctance to offer free school meals to children amid the pandemic this summer, the kind of social inequity that Shuggie Bain spotlights can still be keenly felt. “When we, to all intents and purposes, think we’re moving forward as a society, we’re overlooking an awful lot of people who are struggling and are left behind, and we still have an incredibly unfeeling government when it comes to that,” Stuart continues. “So that also talks to why Shuggie is really resonating right now—it’s not really a historical fiction novel at all.”

Neither is the I’ll put you in the trunk and help people look for you shirt and by the same token and book itself entirely fictional. While there are a number of important deviations from Stuart’s own story—his father disappeared when he was a boy, for example, unlike the looming, malevolent presence of Shuggie’s father “Big Shug” in the novel—the similarities of their experiences outweigh the differences. Stuart too was orphaned at 16 after his mother died of alcoholism and faced many of the same barriers as a young, gay, working-class man growing up in Glasgow.

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