My first novel and a mixtape. I was swimming in Her Fearful Symmetry during an April trip to Portland, Maine (oh, I love Portland!). I passed a couple of gray, spring, post-check-in hours listening to harbor winds, drinking bad hotel coffee, reading in a big, fluffy bed. Jeff and I saw The Low Anthem (a band that makes magic out of music) and Iron & Wine at the State Theatre that night. It was during The Low Anthem's set that I lost myself, submerged in memories of scenes from this story while beautiful, melancholic songs twirled and danced around me like ghosts. And this is a ghost story, after all - haunting and young. But no need to worry. Unlike Niffenegger's fragile escapist Valentina, I came up for air a few songs in - to exist in my own world.
Soundtrack to a novel: Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger
1. Delivered, Admiral Fallow
2. Disguised as Someone Else, Joe Pug
3. England, The National
4. Ghost Woman Blues, The Low Anthem
5. Lavender Street, David Wax Museum
6. Is There a Ghost, Band of Horses
7. Blood Bank, Bon Iver
8. Arms of a Thief, Iron & Wine
9. Two Small Deaths, Wye Oak
10. My Boy Builds Coffins, Florence + the Machine
11. Time Travel Is Lonely, John Vanderslice
12. These Days, Foo Fighters
13. Dead and Done, Bobby Long
14. Finish Line, Fanfarlo
15. Memory Lane, Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
Listen to this mixtape on Spotify (partial - 'til more bands are on the bandwagon)
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