Nina Schuyler’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Open the Floodgates

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. Nina Schuyler’s Open the Floodgates is a fabulous fable for our times, a climate fiction novel both compelling and timely. Kate Folk wrote of the book: “Open the Floodgates begins with an ingenious premise and unfolds into an intricate tale of interdependence and survival. With lyrical prose and vivid characters—human and non-human alike—Schuyler makes the fight to sustain the natural world feel urgent and intimate.” In her own words, here is Nina Schuyler’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Open the Floodgates: With every ounce of my being, I feel compelled to do something about the climate crisis, which is bearing down, tragically reshaping everything. And so, here comes my…