Emily McBride’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Queen Mab

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. Emily McBride’s novel Queen Mab is a brilliant debut that marries folklore to postpartum depression. The New Yorker wrote of the book: “The body horror of birth gives way to the fairy-tale horror of early motherhood, which McBride, a translator based in Barcelona, strews with literary Easter eggs from folktales and Victorian poetry . . . The result is an agile, unsettling novel about the unwinding of a mind, set in a world of women who view motherhood as a curious affectation.” In her own words, here is Emily McBride’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel Queen Mab: Spooky lullabies and fairy tale songs from Queen Mab In Queen Mab, Madeleine is a young mother who thinks…