No Man’s Brooklyn (audio book)

Description

No Man’s Brooklyn (audio book)
A novel by John Biscello

 

Narrated by the author.

ISBN: 978-1-997880-15-8

Genre: Fiction (sub genre; urban & street lit, romance, coming-of-age)

November 2026

Cover photography for this audiobook by Anthony Distefano.

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AUDIO BOOK FILES ARE IN MP3 FORMAT. ALL PARTS ARE DOWNLOADABLE IN ONE ZIP FOLDER.

SYNOPSIS: From the valentine boneyards of working-class Brooklyn, comes a tale of first love, lost innocence, tragedy, and healing. Daniel Trovato, having left his native Bensonhurst years ago to start a new life in L.A., is recently sober and enjoying cult success through his Sworn Witness graphic novels. When he receives word that his childhood love, Anya, has died from an overdose, he is compelled to return to the “old neighborhood.” It is there that he will walk through the ghostly twilight of an unfinished past, and revisit both the romantic lore and shadow life of his youth. The enduring torch he’s carried for Anya, “the girl from nowhere,” who was found in a trash can and adopted by a Russian family; the hazy circumstances of his mother’s suicide when he was fourteen; glacial estrangement from his father; the street-and-concrete beats and rhythms of an urban boyhood. Ultimately, No Man’s Brooklyn is about the mythic journey we take to meet our core self, and a lyrical testament to the words of Dylan Thomas: “The memories of childhood have no order, and no end.”

About the author: Originally from Brooklyn, NY, John is an award-winning novelist, poet, performer, playwright, and screenwriter. He has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale; Raking the Dust; Nocturne Variations; The Last Furies and No One Dreams in Color.

He has also authored a collection of stories called Freeze Tag, two poetry collections (Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street) and a fable (The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama). He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined.

His fiction and poetry has appeared in 3:AM magazine, nthposition, the Tishman Review, Paris Lit Up, Kansas City Voices, Yuan Yang, and numerous other publications.

His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.

The Bride, a chamber film that he wrote and directed, debuted in May of 2024, and was an Official Selection of the Berlin Indie Film Festival and the Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival.

What others are saying: “Biscello succeeds in bringing to life both Daniel as well as the intriguing milieu that created him: stoops, city parks, 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor.”–KIRKUS REVIEWS

What others are saying: “Biscello is a thoughtful chronicler of life’s private brutalities, so keen at observation and generous with a family’s vulnerability, that the reader is carried along with seemingly effortless emotional effort. Yet the toll is terrific – and almost sleight of hand.”–Amy Boaz, author of Because You Are Mine and Beat.