Shuggie Bain: A novel of Child Abuse

Abstract

Rejected by almost thirty publishers in the United States and the United Kingdom, Shuggie Bain won the Booker Prize for 2020. From the opening chapter, the novel seizes the booklover by the throat and doesn’t let go until it has wrung out all the crazily vacillating emotions — ecstasy, mourning, annoyance, disappointment, enthusiasm, longing, jealousy, abhorrence and a strange, gleaming love. In fact the novel brings forward a mother-child relationship and child abuse. These various emotions and feelings make the novel exhilarating experience of reading.