I tend to listen to the same album or song compulsively, obsessively for months. In her own words, here is Lynn Steger Strong's Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel Hold Still: "What keeps the pages turning is the desperate, botched attempts at familial love between family members, none of whom seem to know quite what they want, bringing to mind the Tolstoy quote, 'Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Here, the mercurial rendering of this particular unhappy family makes it a heart-wrenching read in its very own way." Lynn Steger Strong's debut novel Hold Still is a compelling debut that cleverly illustrates familial love and all its ramifications. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Jesmyn Ward, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Lauren Groff, T.C. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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