About The Bastard of Brooklyn
“You can run from New York City, but you can’t hide from your past.”
The Bastard of Brooklyn is a story about one man’s search for his place in the world disguised as a whodunit involving a cast of colorful characters in an ever-changing city. Nicholas Wang-Russo is the Brooklyn born son of an Asian American father and Caucasian mother, both career petty criminals and drug addicts who left Nicholas an orphan at the age of 13. After years on the streets as a teenage runaway, during the chaotic aftermath of 9/11 Nicholas switches identities with his doppleganger, a rich runaway with a troubled past named Raymond Lee, and leaves the city by joining the military. Nicholas’ life is turned upside down one day when he finds out that a real estate developer named Nicholas Wang-Russo, notorious for gentrifying neighborhoods with hipster boutique commune-style condos, has been found murdered in Brooklyn. Nicholas returns to the city for the first time since 9/11 to understand more about the man he switched identities with. As he confronts his past and dives headfirst into the belly of the beast that is the new New York City in pursuit of answers that he’s been avoiding for years, Nicholas reunites with old acquaintances and navigates a drastically changed New York while dealing with mysterious Buddhist monks, smooth talking lawyers, Muslim graffiti writers, geriatric surfers in the Rockaways, washed up punk rockers turned influencers, and hipster white supremacists.
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Author Bio:
D.W. Arrow is the pen name of an amateur mystery novelist living in Brooklyn. When he is not writing, D.W. spends his time teaching sculpture to high school students and making decoys of waterfowls and bird carvings.