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July 02, 2013
Weekly Read Features John Addiego
As a service to our faithful readers, each week Unbridled Books has been highlighting a previously published novel by posting a first chapter excerpt on scribd.com. This week is John Addiego’s Tears of the Mountain.
Because the story revolves around Independence Day, we have chosen to feature it this week. Tears of the Mountain chronicles a single day in one man’s life—July 4, 1876—along with a series of flashbacks that all lead up to an eventful Centennial Independence Day celebration in Sonoma, California. Over the course of this surprisingly pivotal moment in his life, Jeremiah McKinley prepares for the celebration and for a reunion with old friends and family. It is a wise and playful novel about America’s pioneer roots, westward expansion, manifest destiny, and how inextricably the past connects to the future.
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, also published by Unbridled Books in Octorber, 2008 was his first novel.
To read the excerpt on scribd.com, Click Here
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