Eleni Sikelianos’s Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Memory Rehearsal

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. Eleni Sikelianos’s Memory Rehearsal is a masterfully told memoir that utilizes a mesmerizing mix of poetry, prose, and photographs. Booklist wrote of the book: “Making her first trip to her ancestral homeland, Eleni slowly reveals an unconventional family history in an intriguing blend of poetry, prose, performance texts, fiction, and nonfiction accompanied by archival and family photographs.” In her own words, here is Eleni Sikelianos’s Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Memory Rehearsal: In the last few years of working on Memory Rehearsal, which took my 25 years to write, a handful of albums pulled me through. Because the book is about ancestors, I needed music that had a certain…