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About\xa0Philip\u2019s new book: NIGHT & ITS LONGINGS (On Sale: March 26, 2024; Livingston Press; Paperback; ISBN: 9781604893748) - in time for your: spring reading, mystery, and romantic suspense roundups\u2026a brooding tale of love lost, adultery, and crime - both a love story and a mystery inseparably intertwined.\xa0 Writer Jake Garrett\u2019s world is turned upside down when the husband of his former flame, Vera, pays him a surprise, late-night visit at his Greenwich Village apartment. Instead of harboring resentment for their affair, Vera\u2019s husband has an unusual request: to help find his missing wife who disappeared from a New York City park while taking photographs.\xa0 Suddenly, Jake is thrust back into a world he thought had been lost to him forever. Jake\u2019s undying love for Vera propels his search for her through the city's night-time streets and, finally, on the remote beaches of the Carolina coast.\xa0\xa0Night and Its Longings isn't just a story of a missing woman \u2014 it's a tale of redemption and self-discovery. Both Jake and Vera, in their separate ways, are forced to confront the most vital human questions: why we do what we do, how we make amends for a life gone wrong, and how in the darkness of night, we see ourselves in the clearest light.\xa0About the author:\xa0PHILIP\xa0CIOFFARI is the author of 6 works of fiction, including: 1) If Anyone Asks, Say I Died From The Heartbreaking Blues; 2) The Bronx Kill; 3) Catholic Boys; 4) Jesusville, 5) Dark Road, Dead End; AND 6) the award-winning A History Of Things Lost Or Broken (which won the Tartt First Fiction Prize and the D. H. Lawrence award for fiction). He is also the writer/director of the Independent feature film, LOVE IN THE AGE OF DION, which has won a number of film festival awards, including Best Picture at the Long Island Int'l Film Expo, and Best Director at the NY Independent Film & Video Festival.\xa0His plays have been produced off and off-off-Broadway at the Chelsea Playhouse, The Belmont Italian American Playhouse, American Globe Theater and American Theatre for Actors, among others.\xa0He\u2019s a graduate of\xa0St. John's University and received his Ph.D. from New York University. He is a member of the Playwrights/Directors Unit of the Actors Studio.\xa0www.philipcioffari.com.

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