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Shepherd Avenue by Charlie Carillo, a coming-of-age literary fiction novel set in an Italian-American family living in New York, originally out from Atlantic Monthly Press in 1986 and later picked up by a Random House imprint as well. This is the title which got him the ALA Best Books of the Year List nod.
After his mother's death, a shy 10-year-old boy from the suburbs must find a place for himself with his grandmother's boisterous Italian-American family in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood in the summer of 1961.