It's also interesting for me, in aligning the music to a story with manic depression at its heart, to see which songs fit where. This track listing has been a pleasure to compile: when things were really bad, listening to music through headphones was about the only thing that could call me back into my own body. Your Voice in My Head is about my recovery from a suicide attempt at 22 (and how I got there in the first place). In her own words, here is Emma Forrest's Book Notes music playlist for her memoir, Your Voice in My Head: Her prose is smart and frequently witty and there are echoes of early Lorrie Moore." " dances along with all the lyrical panache of a novel. Smartly written and surprisingly witty, this is one of the year's finest memoirs. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.Įmma Forrest's memoir Your Voice in My Head is as genuine and honest a depiction of depression and recovery as I have ever read.
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