John of John
by Douglas Stuart
About John of John
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home. Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and lay preacher, and his maternal grandmother Ella. But Cal isn't the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets, and as lambing season turns to shearing season, nothing will remain as it was before.