People Like You Countdown: It's Publication Day! Margaret Malone Featured on Largehearted Boy.

Today, November 17th, is the official publication day for Margaret Malone's People Like You! For the past week in our People Like You Countdown we've featured a series of posts about this phenomenal debut, of which Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Brave Enough, says:

"People Like You is a powerful debut by a writer of immense talent. In stories that shimmer and burn with beauty and sorrow, generosity and wit, Margaret Malone reveals the deepest, darkest, and most illuminating truths about what it means to be human. I love this book beyond measure." 

(By the way, People Like You is already in stock at Atelier26 HQ and can be ordered now. All orders ship within 24 hours!)  

Today Margaret Malone contributes to the popular "Book Notes" series on Largehearted Boy, offering a music playlist whose nine songs each "snug up against or fit inside the heart of" one of the stories in People Like You. Malone writes:

The characters in the stories of People Like You, I love them for what they are, and I love them for what they were over the course of twenty or thirty or forty rewrites, and I love all the ways I hated them when I couldn't figure them out.

And now here I am mixing memory and music and story and character in one big knotted up mess. It's pretty dreamy. You know, if you like dreams where you have peanut butter stuck all over your hands and the phone is ringing and you have to answer it because it's someone really important but for the life of you, you cannot find a paper towel. 

Some of the song memories here are mine, the writer's; and some of the song memories here are the characters'; and some of the song memories here are both....

See the playlist HERE, and then listen to it too!