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“In The Merry Dredgers, song and music courses through the narrative like arteries carrying nutrient-rich blood throughout the body.”
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“There’s a particular lineage of Black music that runs through my debut novel, We Are A Haunting, artifacts of migration across regions and the resiliency of ever-expanding traditions. The book is an archive, a preservation of the journey of Black music…”
“My life would be nothing without music and writing. Not because listening to music inspires my writing, but because writing music inspires my writing.”
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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.”