Book cover for 'Last Train to Patchogue' by Francisco Lupini, featuring two women seen from behind, facing each other, with a train track in the center.

Synopsis: Daniel Ashby is a sound recordist who has spent his life paying attention to the noises other people overlook. Trains, footsteps, conversations, and silence tell him more about the world than most people are willing to reveal.

An unexpected journey to Fire Island brings him into the life of Luca, a man whose presence unsettles Daniel's carefully ordered existence. What follows is an intimate encounter shaped by desire, missed signals, personal histories, and the complicated distance between hearing someone and understanding them.

Moving between New York and the shores of Long Island, Last Train to Patchogue explores the fragile possibility of connection, the things we leave unsaid, and the extraordinary significance of being heard.

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Project Type: Novel · Contemporary Literary Fiction / Romance
Tagline: He made a living listening to the world. Then he met someone he couldn't quite hear.