Kathleen Rooney’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Man Overboard!

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. Kathleen Rooney’s novel Man Overboard! is insightful, moving, and funny. Booklist wrote of the book: “Each of Rooney’s enthralling novels are shaped by her astute insights, poetic descriptions, and sharp wit. This bravura survival tale is endearingly suspenseful, touching, and hilarious.” In her own words, here is Kathleen Rooney’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Man Overboard!: My fifth novel, Man Overboard!, is a dark comedy—kind of a beach read about a guy who has no beach. It’s the story of a 33-year-old dude from Nebraska, a former college swimmer named Kick Kilpatrick, who falls (or jumps?) into the Gulf of Mexico while on a Thanksgiving cruise with his extended…