| First published in 1986. Named one of the Best Books of that year by the American Library Association.
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.
“Shepherd Avenue…has terrific force” – The New York Times
“Shepherd Avenue is a remarkably rich first novel, filled with marvelous and memorable scenes – Joey’s… |
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