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Douglas Stuart’s Best Novel Yet

“John of John” is a tender story of a father, a son, and the hard work of learning to love honestly.

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Ron Charles
May 12, 2026
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The Tuesday Review

(Grove Press)

Douglas Stuart, author of the Booker Prize-winning Shuggie Bain, is becoming a problem. With the publication of his third novel, John of John, we’re running out of superlatives.

It doesn’t seem possible now, but this Scottish-American writer who once struggled to find a publisher on either side of the Atlantic has managed i…

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