Authors Elizabeth Berg and Douglas Stuart discuss Stuart's novel Shuggie Bain. Shuggie Bain is a story about a family devastated by the effects of poverty, abuse, alcoholism, and other devastating realities that came along with the Thatcher policies enacted in Glasgow in the 1980s. This program is possible through a partnership between Writing Matters and The Nineteenth Century Charitable Association. Shuggie Bain is shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
