Shuggie Bain: A Novel Ying Hui Tan barely twenty-five years after the

barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation

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Shuggie Bain: A Novel Ying Hui Tan barely twenty-five years after theShuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh Shuggie Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatchers policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the citys notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggies mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggies guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door