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. Candice Wuehle’s novel Ultranatural an immersive pageturner, a captivating story of friendship and fame. Sadie Dupois wrote of the book: “In a ramped-up retelling of the pop starlet mythos, Ultranatural charts the converse curves of fame-seeking and holy bestiedom through the literary tradition of posting like your life depends on it. Wuehle’s shades-dark humor and astute weirdness are pitch-perfect, autotuned to ring out an alien gloss of mystic uncanny.” In her own words, here is Candice Wuehle’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Ultranatural: Before Ultranatural’s protagonist becomes a pop star so big she goes by one name alone—Love—she is Lacey Dove Bart: a girl from Appalachia…
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