Sarah Wang’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel New Skin

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. Sarah Wang’s novel New Skin is a debut filled with dark humor and a powerfully poignant coming-of-age story. BOMB wrote of the book: “In her debut novel New Skin, Sarah Wang renders a mother-daughter relationship with startling intensity and dark wit…Reflecting on the body as a site of history and expression, the performance of vulnerability, and the layered histories embedded in Los Angeles, Wang’s New Skin introduces a sharp, and often humorous, voice attuned to contradiction, where intimacy is as perilous as it is sustaining.” In her own words, here is Sarah Wang’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel New Skin: Fade Into You (Mazzy Star) The protagonist of my novel,…