Young Mungo Karen M. McManus “A masterful delight

“A masterful delight

Greeted with enormous enthusiasm at its premiere at La Scala in 1887

and committing to love with everything you’ve got

He is alienated and in love — and at the center of a narrowing

The collection also includes 'The Idiots'

Young Mungo Karen M. McManus “A masterful delightMungo and James live in a world shaped by poverty, sectarian divides, and rigid expectations. Mungo is a Protestant, James a Catholiclabels that should make them enemies. But in the quiet refuge of Jamess dovecote, surrounded by cooing pigeons and stolen moments, the boys fall deeply in love, dreaming of a life far from the violence and judgment that defines their surroundings. Yet just as their fragile sanctuary begins to feel real, Mungo is sent on