Overview
- Oprah’s Book Club, which announced its May pick Tuesday, chose John of John by Douglas Stuart.
- Winfrey said the story made her feel transported to a remote island community shaped by tradition and judgment.
- The novel follows an art school graduate who returns to a small town on a northern Scottish isle and faces a fraught bond with his father.
- A book-club interview with Stuart is now up on Winfrey’s YouTube channel and on podcast platforms, giving readers direct access to his insights.
- Stuart, the Booker Prize–winning author of Shuggie Bain, releases his third novel here, returning to themes of class, family, sectarian divides, and queer identity that have reached more than a million readers worldwide.