Beautiful Music [Paperback]

Danny Yzemski tunes out a dysfunctional family with Frank Zappa and Iggy Pop, shaking his countercultural fist at The Man in this eight-track flashback of a novel set in 1970s Detroit.
--O, the Oprah Magazine, included in Summer Reading Picks/One of 'O's Top Books of Summer

Beautiful Musicis a sweet and endearing coming-of-age tale measured in album tracks.
--Wall Street Journal

For Danny, cracking the seal on a fresh piece of wax and dissecting cover art and liner notes are acts of nigh religious experience that unveil to him a community of fellow rockers across Detroit...It's in these small moments--a lonely boy experiencing premature nostalgia--that Zadoorian shines.
--Washington Post

Beautiful Musichas been named a2019 Michigan Notable Book

Adult Fiction Winnerfor the2018 Great Lakes Great Reads program

One ofMcLean & Eakin's Favorite Michigan Books of 2018

One of theVoicenews Michigan Bestsellers for 2018 in Fiction

Garnering a litany of regional awards from the likes ofVoice, McLean & Eakin, and the 2018 Great Lakes Great Reads program, Michael Zadoorian's senior novelBeautiful Musictells of one young Detroiter's transformation through music during a time of political turmoil. Laden with details of the city, the novel is uniquely Detroit. (Some of the bands the protagonist, Danny, listens to are local legends MC5 and Iggy Pop.)
--Detroit Metro Times, included in the Michigan summer 2019 reading list

His third novel--Beautiful Music, about a radio-loving teen's transformation through music during the early '70s in Detroit...[is] rich with Detroit details (Korvette's, Bill Bonds, Iggy Pop), [and] follows Danny through racial tensions at high school, his changing body and his imploding family life.
--Detroit Free Press

[Zadoorian's] new novel speaks of death, race, lÓ+