Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Said the Dead

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. Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Said the Dead is wholly atmospheric and inventively told, one of the most impressive postmodern ghost novels I have read. Kirkus wrote of the book: “Ní Ghríofa brings an elegiac sensibility to a haunting portrait of a hidden world . . . Weaving biography, history, fiction, and memoir, Ní Ghríofa vividly imagines the muffled voices of desperate women, honoring their suffering, and her own. A radiant work of empathy and insight.” In her own words, here is Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Said the Dead: Jonny Greenwood, ‘Never Cursed’, ‘Phantom Thread II’, ‘House of Woodcock’ ‘Said the Dead’ was made in silence. There were my silent…