Caitlin Shetterly’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Gulf of Lions

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Caitlin Shetterly’s The Gulf of Lions is an enchanting novel of motherhood, family, and France. Booklist wrote of the book: “Shetterly writes with intimate, journal-like immediacy, threading humor and longing throughout Alice’s journey. Without veering into the maudlin or the morose, her prose is warm and self-aware. Readers who cherished the self-reinvention of Frances Mayes’s Under the Tuscan Sun (1996), the emotional depth of Nina Riggs’ The Bright Hour (2017), and the fish-out-of- water perspective of Nicki Chen’s When in Vanuatu (2021) will enjoy Shetterly’s luminous and life-affirming novel.” In her own words, here is Caitlin Shetterly’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Gulf…