Meg Richardson’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Paradise Pawn

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. Meg Richardson’s coming-of-age novel Paradise Pawn is one of the funniest debuts of the year, a book as compassionate as it is hopeful. Debutiful wrote of the book: “A fun-as-hell coming-of-age romp. Theft, pawn shops, Florida. What more can you want from a novel that packs so much heart into every laugh? Fans of Kristen Arnett will devour this one.” In her own words, here is Meg Richardson’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel Paradise Pawn: Paradise Pawn is my debut novel. It’s about two best friends who work at a pawn shop in Florida, based on my own experiences working at a pawn shop. Music played a huge role in my writing process for this book. Jackie and Kayla, the…