Nin Andrews’s Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Son of a Bird

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, Hanif Abdurraqib Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Nin Andrews’s Son of a Bird is a striking memoir about life growing up on a farm. Hippocampus Magazine wrote of the book: “Andrews’s gift for writing poetry makes each of her memories, no matter how large or small, light up the page.” In her own words, here is Nin Andrews’s Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Son of a Bird: My book, Son of a Bird, is a memoir of growing up on a farm in the South, the daughter of a gay architect and an autistic dairy farmer mother. Friends call it a Southern Gothic in the manner of Dorothy Alison, pointing out I had a most peculiar childhood. Before writing this book, I didn’t realize how unusual my life was. How, for example, drinking whiskey…