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“In moments you will laugh at the absurdity of their world, and in other moments the darkness will feel all too familiar…”
“…with a few exceptions, these aren’t tracks that I was actively listening to as I wrote Meltwater. It’s more like ‘here’s another way to access the tonal and emotional arc of the book,’ which is about fear, the future, eco-collapse, parenthood & children, death, dystopia, self-destruction, guilt & responsibility, hopelessness & (maybe) redemption.”
“Along with a dog named Lola, I wrote Monstrilio listening to music. There were songs that took me to the places I needed to be: Upstate New York, Mexico City, Brooklyn and Berlin. Others dug into feelings shouting to be explored: loneliness, chaotic giddiness, carefree monstrousness. Others jerked me away, whisked against some horror I’d just written, spitting me out at the other end, harrowed but satisfyingly alive.”
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“When I’m asked to describe what Thirst for Salt is about, I often say simply that it’s a love story because I believe that love stories, like love songs, can act as vessels for our deeper existential longings.”
“Over the last decade spent writing Only and Ever This, these songs were how I managed to quiet the thoughts in my head for long enough to let another story exist, a story of a mother who is a ghost, a father who is a pirate, and sons who trundle down a complex of caves, the story of mummifying twin boys so that they won’t grow up.”
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“In The Unfortunates, music is everywhere, appearing in Sahara’s playlists, song parodies, and track titles. Music helped me discover the novel’s experimental form, and when I needed to jog my memories, it transported me back to 2013, the year of the novel’s setting.”