Slum Boy
Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781914240836
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Authors
- Diaz, Juano
- Publisher
- Octopus Publishing Group
- Published Date
- February 13, 2025
- Genre
- Biography / Literature and Literary studies › Biography and non-fiction prose › Memoirs
- Subjects
- Autobiography: general, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Memoirs, Poverty & unemployment
- Pages
- 272
- Physical Info
- 19.7 cm H x 2.3 cm L x 12.6 cm W (0.234 kg)
'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN </h1>
'If you like Shuggie Bain, then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN SISSAY
'Beautifully told. I hope it finds a million readers' ANDREW O'HAGAN
John MacDonald is a four-year-old boy growing up in the slums of Glasgow.
John's mother is an addict, who leaves him starving in their flat for days at a time.
When a neighbour reports her, John is wrenched away from his family and placed into the care system. There, he has experiences he's too young to understand which his eventual adoptive parents silence as he grows into a gay man within a strict Romani community.
But John dreams of being reunited with his mother and will stop at nothing to find her.
'Compulsively readable' PATRICK GALE
'Remarkable and moving tale' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Juano Diaz was awarded the Pride Awards 2024 for LGBTQ+ Heroes Changing the World.
'If you like Shuggie Bain, then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN SISSAY
'Beautifully told. I hope it finds a million readers' ANDREW O'HAGAN
John MacDonald is a four-year-old boy growing up in the slums of Glasgow.
John's mother is an addict, who leaves him starving in their flat for days at a time.
When a neighbour reports her, John is wrenched away from his family and placed into the care system. There, he has experiences he's too young to understand which his eventual adoptive parents silence as he grows into a gay man within a strict Romani community.
But John dreams of being reunited with his mother and will stop at nothing to find her.
'Compulsively readable' PATRICK GALE
'Remarkable and moving tale' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Juano Diaz was awarded the Pride Awards 2024 for LGBTQ+ Heroes Changing the World.
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