John Addiego has published numerous stories and poems in literary journals and is a former poetry editor at the Northwest Review. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he now lives with his wife, Ellen, and daughter, Emily, in Corvallis, Oregon, where he teaches students with special needs. The Islands of Divine Music is his first novel.

Advance Praise "With The Islands of Divine Music, John Addiego achieves a deft and graceful balancing act--a tender but unflinching fictional interface of pragmatism and passionate faith. As Addiego investigates the twentieth century American experience by way of southern Italian lore and Mexican mysticism, he delivers a novel that somehow manages to be both succinct and expansive, both grounded and otherworldly. I was moved and entertained by this truly original story." —Wally Lamb Fiction Hardcover October 2008 ISBN 13: 978-1-932961-54-6 publisher: Unbridled Books

October 4: Northern California independent bookseller's association, Oakland, CA, at the Oakland Conference Center from 1:00-4:00 pm. October 27: Reading/book signing, Powell's Books (Hawthorne location) in Portland, OR, at 7:30 pm. November 7: Magic Barrel reading, Majestic Theatre, Corvallis, OR, 7:00 pm. November 9: Reading/signing at Stayton's Second Sunday Poetry Series, Stayton, OR, from 3-5 pm. In the gallery of Paul Toews. To schedule readings and book signings, please contact laural@unbridledbooks.com.