Brittany Perham’s Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Executrix

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. Brittany Perham’s Executrix is a memoir both inventive in form and poignant. Booklist wrote of the book: “Playing with the official language of audits and lawsuits, Perham is in the rare camp of writers who can dance between pathos and humor without diminishing the seriousness of her subjects. This is a striking memoir of what surfaces when dealing with the vestiges, physical and emotional, of a deceased parent and all the stories we have made them, and us, out to be. ‘I have to tell you not much changes between the beginning and the end. I don’t know and then I don’t know,’ Perham writes. But it may be impossible to read this book without being changed by it.” In her own words,…