Erin Miller Reid’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel But for Fortune

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. Erin Miller Reid’s novel But for Fortune brings two generations of Appalachian women and their struggles to life in this profound debut. Kirkus wrote of the book: “An earnest, affecting novel about the painful consequences of the lack of effective mental health care.” In her own words, here is Erin Miller Reid’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel But for Fortune: But For Fortune is an exploration of both family legacy and family secrets. It follows two Appalachian women fifty years apart, a grandmother and her granddaughter, as they each struggle with their unique experiences of mental illness and discrimination. I finished my novel in August 2022. It wasn’t the version…