Sara Lippmann’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Hidden River

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, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Sara Lippmann’s novel Hidden River is a powerful novel of trauma and friendship. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “Crisp and unsettling…Readers will admire this gritty slice of life.” In her own words, here is Sara Lippmann’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Hidden River: Music plays throughout my novel, Hidden River. While the forward story unfolds over the summer of 2008, its emotional heart is lodged squarely in the mid ‘80s to early ‘90s, when any Gen Xer could tell you: music was life. Our spark plug, our deliverance. We lived at the mercy of the radio, lugged around our battery-operated portable tape decks smug with the technology of dubbing. We waited (and waited) for the DJs…