Juano Diaz's elegant and heartbreaking memoir immediately brings to mind Douglas Stuart's Booker-winning Shuggie Bain, which told a fictional tale of similar territory - Glasgow tenements and moments of sublimity balanced against the brutality of a breadline existence.
Like Stuart, Diaz has written his first book in middle age. Stuart was a successful fashion designer before he turned his hand to literature; Diaz is a celebrated visual artist and photographer, and has collaborated with Gilbert and George and Grace Jones.
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