Philip A. Genovese, Jr.
Writer, Musician, Content Creator
Philip A. Genovese Jr. is a multidisciplinary creator whose work spans storytelling, music, and voice performance. As the award-recognized author of The Grandfather Clause, a suspense-driven novel exploring legacy and consequence, he brings a narrative depth that extends into songwriting, musicianship, and voice talent.
With a focus on character-driven storytelling across mediums, Genovese’s work bridges literary, audio, and screen-based platforms. Happily married as are their three married children, and their six grandchildren, retirement from UPS Healthcare has proven to be very busy and rewarding.
About …
about me …
I was born in Newark, New Jersey. When I was five, my family moved to historic Monmouth County on the Jersey Shore.
It was a small town founded in the 1600’s. We had one police car in those days. It was almost always parked at the tiny building that housed our police station and post office. The building was in the middle of a street, near the intersection which once served as the town square. Presbyterian, Episcopal, and Quaker churches occupied two of the corners. One corner was a stately century-old private home set back from the street on a large, beautifully treed property. On the fourth corner was The Allen House, a former tavern and lodge called The Blue Ball, built just before 1700.
George Washington was said to have visited The Blue Ball around the time of the Battle of Monmouth. The historical society now calls this The Four Corners.
My family’s house was on a lazy street a couple blocks from The Four Corners. In the summer, my neighborhood basked in stippled sunlight filtered through towering elms, expansive maples, and stately sycamores. Weekends in the fall, we’d rake their fallen leaves to the curb and burn the piles. This was before burning leaves, smoking cigarettes, and cars with metal dashboards and no seatbelts were hazardous to our health. read more
about the book …
It's March of 1963 in a quiet New Jersey shore community. Joseph Napolo is a young boy who cherishes his Pop Pop Carmine's Sunday visits to his parents’ home. Joseph has come to understand that there is something special about his grandfather - the stories he tells, his friends that visit after dinner, how some kiss his ring and call him Don Carmine. This Sunday, however, Joseph is the sole witness to sinister and dramatic events. Young Joseph and his grandfather pledge to keep a dark secret. It is also the last time he will see his grandfather.
Over time, Joseph learns his grandfather had been the boss of one of the five New York crime families, which still bears his name and continues to be illuminated as the most powerful Mafia organization in the country. Joseph has shunned his grandfather's ways but he will forever share the family name. He understands that fame is fickle and fleeting. Infamy is not.
Now Spring 2001, Joseph is a husband, father, and with his best friend, Michael Cogan, co-owner of a successful trucking company. However, trouble with the Teamsters Union, Cogan's gambling debts, and a hijacking that is much more than it appears to be, create a scenario where the past and the present reconvene. During this one week in May, these ostensibly unconnected events toss together several nefarious entities. A high-tech defense contractor, a treacherous ex-US intelligence operative, the Napolo Crime Family, and Teamster officials collude and collide, taking Joseph on a wild and deadly ride, racing toward a Friday deadline. Reluctantly, Joseph must penetrate his grandfather's world to protect his family and to save his friend, only to find himself a key player in a conspiracy which distorts the concept of patriotism and redefines his grandfather's role in history.
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