Nikki Ervice’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Roadshow

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. Nikki Ervice’s novel Roadshow is empathetic and bold and one of the year’s best debuts. Kirkus wrote of the book: “Evocative . . . rich . . . Full of verisimilitude, financial precarity, and wildfire, this debut takes a long road toward unexpected kindness.” In her own words, here is Nikki Ervice’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel Roadshow: As a dancer, music has always been incredibly affecting to me, almost to an obsessive degree. I started my dance “career” bopping around to Bonnie Raitt in the living room, possessed. A neighbor told my parents, hey, maybe you should put that kid in dance classes, and once technique was introduced, I found it impossible to quit. My…

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