![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, when writing, I'll sometimes listen to music to help access a particular time or emotion. Long before I was a novelist, back when cassette was king, I was a dedicated mixtape maker, plotting out playlists like I'd later plot out scenes and narrative arcs. Deming, one of the novel's main characters, is a musician. Music has been such a huge part of my life, my writing, and The Leavers. In her own words, here is Lisa Ko's Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel The Leavers: Ko uses the voices of both the boy and his birth mother to tell a story that unfolds in graceful, realistic fashion and defies expectations." "This wrenching and all-too-topical debut novel picks up the life of an 11-year-old American-born boy on the day his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, disappears. Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction and winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction, Lisa Ko's debut novel The Leavers is a powerful and timely look at the immigrant experience, and one of the year's most profound works of fiction. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Jesmyn Ward, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Lauren Groff, T.C. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. ![]()
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