Rae Cline’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Precious Ugly

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. Rae Cline’s novel Precious Ugly may be the year’s most powerful debut, a book that examines domestic violence and generational trauma with a rare empathy that bonds the reader with the protagonist. Matt Bondurant wrote of the book: “Rae Cline has written a vivid, harrowing account of a young girl struggling to find meaning in difficult circumstances. Clementine is thirteen, pregnant, and looking for a miracle. Her father claims to know that a miracle is coming. But what they get is something else altogether. Or is it? Cline works with a lyrical, meticulous prose style to depict a story that needs to be told. A bold and courageous work of fiction that book clubs and readers of all…