Cinelle Barnes’s Book Notes music playlist for her memoir A Way Home

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. Cinelle Barnes’s memoir A Way Home shares the mesmerizing story of her recovery from a ruptured brain aneurysm. Aimee Nezhukumatathil wrote of the book: “In this stunning memoir, Barnes emphasizes kapwa―the Tagalog word for shared humanity―writing with a clarity that refuses spectacle and showing how home is grown slowly, through attention and care, rather than claimed all at once. A Way Home is a needed reminder that even after displacement and injury, the world still offers places―often in each other―where we can rest and belong.” In her own words, here is Cinelle Barnes’s Book Notes music playlist for her memoir A Way Home: In 2023, I was writing the last chapters for A WAY HOME,…