“At its center, my novel is an investigation of memory, its ties to identity, sense of home and belonging, and the fragmentation and fractures that come when we lose it. When Claire suffers memory loss, she, her husband Charlie, and best friend Rachel, become detectives of their own past. Rachel hunts down all of Claire’s favorite foods to help trigger her lost history, believing that sensory memories might help rebuild Claire’s ties to the past. I imagine that a lot of this detective work also centers around music. The two friends spend a lot of time digging through storage boxes, one or two of which must hold CDs from their graduate school days as well as the albums Claire might have saved from her parents’ collections and her high school and college years. Here is a list of songs I imagine playing in the background in the homes of my characters—from childhood through graduate school and, eventually, in Charlie’s home after Claire returns from the hospital.” Read about and listen to the entire playlist here.