Lisa Owens’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Natural Disaster

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. Lisa Owens’s novel Natural Disaster shares an compelling 24-hour glimpse of modern motherhood both profound and brilliantly comic. Booklist wrote of the book: “The pressures placed on the modern working mother shape Owens’ latest…Told entirely in a stream of consciousness, Natural Disaster follows the narrator’s shifting thoughts as she navigates the day…confront[ing] difficult subjects such as resentment, infidelity, and burnout, while showing how love can also feel demanding, conflicted, and hard to sustain. Owens presents a clear account of a woman trying to meet competing demands. The result is a focused study of motherhood, disappointment, and love.”” In her own words, here is…