Chad Anderson’s Book Notes music playlist for his graphic memoir Gay Mormon Dad

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. Chad Anderson’s graphic memoir Gay Mormon Dad is both moving and engrossing. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “The hard-won insights here will resonate for fans of queer memoir―and any reader who has faced major life transformations.” In his own words, here is Chad Anderson’s Book Notes music playlist for his graphic memoir Gay Mormon Dad: Gay Mormon Dad is a graphic memoir about my life in and out of the closet. An adaptation of my 2017 print memoir, with some poignant updates, the book weaves together between two times in my life, both stories moving forward. THEN, painted in blue tones, starts at my birth and ends the day I came out, guiding the reader through a life steeped by trauma…