Young Mungo Karen M. McManus and committing to love with

and committing to love with everything you’ve got

who has been hospitalized after an accident

himself a murderer and a man few will miss

a childhood trauma

but also on the children who grow up in the shadow of their choices

Young Mungo Karen M. McManus and committing to love withMungo 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