Alex DiFrancesco’s Book Notes music playlist for their novel-in-stories The Grief Shop

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. Alex DiFrancesco’s post-dystopian novel-in-stories The Grief Shop is inventive and enveloping. Never Angeline Nørth wrote of the book: “Sharp, inventive, and deeply human, The Grief Shop is a look at how emotions make us who we are and the way those same feelings link us together. Simultaneously zooming in to the personal and out to the global, DiFrancesco is an astute observer of how we all tick” In their own words, here is Alex DiFrancesco’s Book Notes music playlist for their novel-in-stories The Grief Shop: The Grief Shop and Other Stories from a Broken World takes place after “the tragedy” kills ⅓ of the earth’s population, and renders the rest clinically emotionally numb. The…