In this Oprah’s Book Club event, Douglas Stuart talks about his novel John of John (Grove Press, 2026), which he wrote over the course of six years after spending weeks researching the Outer Hebrides Isles on the coast of Scotland and interviewing their locals. For more from Stuart, read his installment of our Ten Questions series.
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