Shuggie Bain: A Novel Ying Hui Tan for your sake

for your sake

Young Ananda knows all about the goddesses’ healing waters and soothing powers but has never experienced them for herself

How they fought—and died

barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation

She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people

Shuggie Bain: A Novel Ying Hui Tan for your sakeShuggie 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