Helen Benedict’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Soldier’s House

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. Helen Benedict’s novel The Soldier’s House is a spellbinding look at how war effects both families and individuals. Booklist wrote of the book: “The characters’ journeys are candid and vulnerable, rendering a pertinent, rich portrait of displaced lives reshaped by conflict and its enduring consequences.” In her own words, here is Helen Benedict’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Soldier’s House: As I watch Trump’s new war with Iran spreading throughout the region, ending thousands of lives, displacing thousands more people, and costing the American taxpayer more than one billion dollars a day, I cannot help but be reminded of the last time the U.S. went to war for no reason with…