Bonnie Friedman’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Don’t Stop

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. Bonnie Friedman’s novel Don’t Stop is a vividly told and moving debut. Booklist wrote of the book: “This coming-of-middle-age story explores a woman’s obsessive affair and the unraveling of her life… A fiction debut that will appeal to fans of Miranda July’s All Fours.” In her own words, here is Bonnie Friedman’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel Don’t Stop: Goldfinger (Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings) Don’t Stop is a novel about a woman with an utterly divided life, who tells herself that part of it is real and important (the part with her kind husband and good job) and the other, which encompasses an increasingly dark sexual affair, is make-believe. And yet she is increasingly…