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The Curiosity Cabinet by Catherine Czerkawska, her time-spanning past-and-present echoes literary fiction novel originally out from Polygon's Birlinn imprint in 2005, which was also shortlisted for the 2005 Dundee Prize. Czerkawska is a BBC Radio playwright as well, according to her bio blurb.
When Alys revisits the beautiful Hebridean island of Garve after an absence of twenty five years, she is captivated by the embroidered casket on display in her hotel. She discovers that it belongs to Donal, her childhood playmate, and soon they resume their old friendship. Interwoven with the story of their growing love, is the darker tale of Henrietta Dalrymple, kidnapped by the formidable Manus McNeill and held on Garve against her will. With three hundred years separating them, the women are linked by the cabinet and its contents, by the tug of motherhood and by the magic of the island itself. But Garve has its secrets, past and present. Donal must learn to trust Alys enough to confide in her and, like Henrietta before her, Alys must earn the right to belong.
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Shepherd Avenue by Charlie Carillo, his coming of age literary novel set in an Italian-American family during the 1960s, originally out from Atlantic Monthly Press in 1986 and later picked up by Random House. This was listed as one of the American Library Association's Best Books of the Year at the time.
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.