Scott Gould’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel Beneath a Fallen Sky

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. Scott Gould’s novel Beneath a Fallen Sky is a mesmerizing account of four northeast Alabamians facing predicted peril when Halley’s Comet appeared in 1910. Ethan Rutherford wrote of the book: “Scott Gould is a fantastic, natural born storyteller, and in Beneath A Fallen Sky he brings the Sand Mountain region and its inhabitants to full, singing life as they anxiously await the arrival of Halley’s Comet in the spring of 1910. The history here is deeply felt and fully inhabited, a true pleasure on the page—as are the cosmic questions this novel raises and turns over, which lift from the book to lodge in your chest.” In his own words, here is Scott Gould’s Book Notes music playlist…