Genevieve Plunkett’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch

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. Genevieve Plunkett’s The Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch is one of my favorite debuts of the year, a brilliant working class novel with an unforgettable protagonist. Electric Literature wrote of the book: “Plunkett writes women whose brains are brilliant whirring machines. . . . This is an astonishing novel from a wild talent.” In her own words, here is Genevieve Plunkett’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel The Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch: The Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch was born directly from the time I spent working at a café in my hometown during the early 2000s. My boss, Robin, was the first to coin the phrase, “Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch,” as a way to pay…