Alfred A. Yuson has authored 22 books, including two novels as well as short fiction, poetry and essay collections. He contributes a weekly culture column to The Philippine Star, and a fortnightly column to the weekly Philippine Graphic magazine. He teaches fiction and poetry in Ateneo de Manila University, where he held the Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair. The Music Child tells about an American journalist undergoes strange experiences in a southern island in the Philippines. He stumbles into a remote tribe of hair-string fiddlers, and encounters a half-breed child with the magical gift of song. Violence intrudes, forcing him to flee. Many years later, he encounters the "music child" again, this time as a grown man who has found a female partner with an equally prodigious gift. Read excerpt of The Music Child Contact author at: krip.yuson@gmail.com