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“My book is like a love letter to my dead best friend, and an examination of grief as well as a glimpse into the worlds of two Black alt girls.
A mixtape is also a love letter.”
“My life has always been flooded with music.”
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“The Distance from Slaughter County has one essay especially devoted to music. Its an exploration of the country music I grew up listening to; that essay is already a playlist, more or less. I hope the tunes below will give a sense for what the rest of the book is about, and what it was like to write.”
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“I was jilted and I was stoned and I listened over and over to Bob Dylan. It was my drug of choice. The music felt like the simultaneous anticipation and afterglow of sex, coursing through me like the continuous caudal I had been promised in childbirth, like my mother’s blessing.”
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“Usually when I write, I listen to songs by very sad people mumbling, and while I love that genre and this playlist includes some songs like that, I knew this novel needed broader kinds of sound.”
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