Sam Beckbessinger’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Femme Feral

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. Sam Beckbessinger’s debut novel Femme Feral is a striking feminist satire. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “A darkly entertaining feminist satire…This tale of women’s rage against societal marginalization builds to a satisfying and bloody end, with Beckbessinger using the tropes of werewolf horror to provide her tough-as-nails heroines with a sense of power, retribution, and gratification. This has bite.” In her own words, here is Sam Beckbessinger’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel Femme Feral: Femme Feral is a book about a woman who thinks she’s going through perimenopause, but is actually turning into a werewolf. Underneath that extremely serious premise, it’s a novel…