Sam Farhi’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel The Sapsuckers

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. Sam Farhi’s novel The Sapsuckers is an impressive debut, a book as inventive as it is moving and intense. Laura Sims wrote of the book: “Intense, raw, and haunting, The Sapsuckers takes on a young man’s obsessive search for the truth about his brother’s mysterious death. We travel down dark corridors and into the unexpected depths of a family’s history in this gripping and beautifully written debut novel.” In his own words, here is Sam Farhi’s Book Notes music playlist for his debut novel The Sapsuckers: Gym Class Heroes – “Za Intro”/ “Papercuts” My man, Travie. First off, Upstate New York people rock together and you’re going to get that vibe throughout this playlist. We all came…