Rowan Beaird’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Tenderness

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. Rowan Beaird’s novel Tenderness is both propulsive and moving, a book both literary and thrilling. Booklist wrote of the book: “A mystery from the first page to the last…The family’s secrets threaten to spill over as anticipation builds, and the result is a novel that feels like a true event, written with snappy prose and a pace that stretches out the mystery but never feels too slow. This book is great for readers who love complicated entanglements and secrets galore” In her own words, here is Rowan Beaird’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Tenderness: I received my first mixtape when I was 14. It was from a boy named Max who had a lip ring and the large, wet eyes of a…