{"id":229200,"date":"2025-05-07T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/sarah-yahms-music-playlist-for-her-novel-unfinished-acts-of-wild-creation-largehearted-boy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:56:08","slug":"sarah-yahms-music-playlist-for-her-novel-unfinished-acts-of-wild-creation-largehearted-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=229200","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Yahm\u2019s music playlist for her novel Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation \u2013 Largehearted Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/wp-admin\/edit.php?post_type=post\"\/><em>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/lhb-book-notes\/\">Book Notes<\/a> series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><em>Previous contributors include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2014\/10\/book_notes_jesm.html\">Jesmyn Ward<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2015\/09\/book_notes_laur_27.html\">Lauren Groff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/08\/book_notes_bret.html\">Bret Easton Ellis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2017\/10\/book_notes_cele.html\">Celeste Ng<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2015\/03\/book_notes_tc_b.html\">T.C. Boyle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/01\/book_notes_dana.html\">Dana Spiotta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2010\/02\/book_notes_amy_3.html\">Amy Bloom,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2011\/04\/book_notes_aime.html\">Aimee Bender<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2014\/05\/book_notes_roxa_2.html\">Roxane Gay,<\/a> and many others.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sarah Yahm\u2019s debut novel<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802158803\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1938603281\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1952386896\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\"><em>Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation<\/em><\/a><em> is a compelling family epic that spans four generations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Booklist wrote of the book:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSpanning four decades, their journey is one of reckoning and renewal, forcing each to balance honoring the past with finding a way forward. Yahm weaves a raw, intimate portrait of a family fractured by illness yet forever connected, exploring grief, love, and the painful beauty of letting go.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In her own words, here is Sarah Yahm\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/lhb-book-notes\/\">Book Notes<\/a> music playlist for her debut novel<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802158803\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1938603281\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1952386896\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\"><em><strong>Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><strong><em>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I write fiction, I place my imaginary characters in familiar settings and then move them around in my mind, like a kid playing with toy dinosaurs. Writing this blog post enabled me to pick them up again\u2014Louise, Leon, and Lydia\u2014and watch them interact with each other. I missed them so much. It\u2019s immensely comforting to discover that while I\u2019ve been doing other things, they\u2019ve been carrying on unscripted, living their lives in the set pieces of my childhood\u2014still arguing, still talking, still making each other laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since 7th Grade, when I was mocked mercilessly for my folky music tastes, I\u2019ve dreaded the question, \u201cWhat kind of music do you like?\u201d because I have been and always will be hopelessly uncool. So I was nervous about pulling together this playlist. But then it occurred to me that it\u2019s not <em>my<\/em> music taste you\u2019ll judge, it\u2019s my characters\u2019. So go to town! I think you\u2019ll find that Leon and Lydia are uncool like me, but Louise (even when she\u2019s listening to chamber music) is very punk rock. The novel starts in 1974, a few years after Leonard Cohen\u2019s <em>Songs of Love and Hate<\/em> and a few months before <em>Blood on the Tracks<\/em> is released. It ends in 2013 and so the last few chapters are filled with the music of my 20\u2019s: Magnetic Fields, The Mountain Goats, The National. Lydia, born in 1979, would definitely have been listening to a lot of Ani DiFranco in her teenage years, but I decided to spare you from the angst-ridden spoken word.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Sarah Yahm\u2019s music playlist for her novel Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/24skvxMNrDz9q9I084ygDj?si=b76782a0448e4152&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Summer in the City<\/strong> by Regina Spektor.<\/p>\n<p>When <em>Unfinished Acts<\/em> opens Louise, the matriarch-to-be, is a hot mess. She\u2019s 23, having just fled her mother\u2019s funeral on Long Island, and she\u2019s \u201clonely, lonely, lonely,\u201d as Regina Spektor would say. She\u2019s hostile and alienating and sweaty and sticky and unwashed and\u2014in spite of it or because of it\u2014kind of sexy. It\u2019s in this state, summarized by Regina Spektor as \u201cI feel like cumming, but I also feel like crying,\u201d that she meets her future husband Leon and goes home with him.<\/p>\n<p>She fucks it up, of course, and then walks home after a series of other self-destructive acts. Like the narrator of this song, she hallucinates her mother \u201cin the backs of other women\u201d\u2014or in this case, in a bunny-slipper-wearing homeless woman in Tompkins Square Park. Oh Louise, you lovable, stinky self-hating fuck-up!<\/p>\n<p><strong>I Hope that I don\u2019t Fall in Love with You<\/strong>, Tom Waits<\/p>\n<p>This one\u2019s pretty self-explanatory. Louise is just one big walking, breathing red flag, and Leon knows it. But he\u2019s going to fall in love with her anyway, is already falling in love with her, is already feeling that all-consuming dangerous tenderness. And Tom Waits expresses dangerous tenderness better than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shelter from the Storm<\/strong>, Bob Dylan<\/p>\n<p>Leon and Louise were already living together when <em>Blood on the Tracks<\/em> came out in January of 1975, and like everyone else in their demographic they listened to it nonstop. But unlike everybody else, Louise also complained about it nonstop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake \u2018Simple Twist of Fate,\u2019 for instance,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a simple, easy-to-understand song, right? Two people meet on the docks. They have a moment and then the moment ends. He wants to have a moment again. Straightforward, right? But then in the middle of it he throws in a one-eyed undertaker and a fucking parrot. Why? Why the parrot?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then let\u2019s talk about \u2018Tangled Up in Blue.\u2019 I\u2019ve no idea what\u2019s going on in this song. They\u2019re on Montague Street\u2014Brooklyn Heights, I\u2019m assuming it\u2019s Brooklyn Heights\u2014but suddenly he\u2019s dealing with slaves? What? Where are we in time? And then don\u2019t even get me started on \u2018Shelter from the Storm.\u2019 He\u2019s wearing a crown of thorns\u2014is Bob Dylan Jesus? And then does that make the woman Mary? \u201cWhen God and she were born?\u201d But Mary wasn\u2019t born at the same time as God. If it\u2019s Mary, is he fucking his mother? But she\u2019s also not his mother. I just\u2014I don\u2019t\u2014sometimes I feel like he just took every archetype in the world, put them in a little cup like you use for Boggle, and then dumped it out on a scarred wooden table.\u201d She paused. \u201cScarred wooden table\u2014how poetic,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso,\u201d she continued undeterred, \u201cwhat is it with all of these Jews\u2014Bobby Zimmerman being the chief culprit\u2014running around talking about Jesus all the time and using Christian iconography? What do they know from Christian iconography?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leon took the bait because he was starting to get bored, and it kept him a little bit interested to keep the fight going. \u201cLeonard Cohen uses Christian iconography in \u2018Suzanne.&#8217;\u201d Louise loved \u201cSuzanne.\u201d Leon always pictured Suzanne as looking like Louise, and he suspected Louise did as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure, he uses Christian iconography because he\u2019s studied Western literature. He uses it deliberately and carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, so you\u2019re saying you understand what\u2019s happening in that verse of \u2018Suzanne\u2019 about Jesus and the sailor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, but he\u2019s creating a story and I can picture it, and I believe that <em>he<\/em> knows what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if this album drives you so crazy, why do we keep listening to it?\u201d Leon said.<\/p>\n<p>Louise ignored him. It was raining outside. \u201cI\u2019m making some tea,\u201d she said. \u201cDo you want some?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n<p>On the way into the kitchen, she put the needle back on \u201cShelter from the Storm\u201d because she loved it. They both loved it. They couldn\u2019t help it, and things were so cozy in their apartment. He couldn\u2019t help picturing both of them in the song even though he knew it was ridiculous. Louise\u2019s shelter was full of barbs and prickers and legitimate-but-irritating, unending critiques. But he felt cocooned anyway. No, that wasn\u2019t quite the right word. He felt like they were creating a universe of internal references and jokes and understandings, a world unto themselves. He was starting to get a sense of the contours of her mind. She was starting to let him inside. He was hopeful, he guessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, seriously,\u201d she said from the kitchen, \u201ca one-eyed undertaker? Unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He laughed and closed his eyes, lying down on the slightly mildewed couch. It was a good afternoon for a nap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lydia, the Tattooed Lady\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the only song Lydia would fall asleep to during the first week of her life. They tried every lullaby and every soothing song either of them knew. In a punch-drunk moment of desperation at 2:00AM Leon two-stepped around the apartment singing this raucous song off-key. And that was when Lydia finally fell asleep. \u201cIt\u2019s a sign from Hashem!\u201d a sleep-deprived Louise announced. Leon agreed because he had fond memories of this song. His mother would sing it on the subway out to Coney Island in the summer when his father was still alive, and she was happy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Real World<\/strong>, Anais Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>Even though it\u2019s the tail end of the 70\u2019s and, frankly, Louise and Leon should know better, they succumb to hippy utopian fantasies and move to the country. As Leon\u2019s mother says when she hears they\u2019re moving upstate: \u201cWhat\u2019s so great about growing your own vegetables? You know what\u2019s even better than growing your own vegetables? Buying them in a store.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course once they move upstate everything falls apart because \u201970s utopian fantasies always fall apart. And also they\u2019re neurotic Jewish Eastern Europeans. What did they think they were going to be? Contented? Happy? Live a simple life? Don\u2019t be ridiculous!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start Wearing Purple Now<\/strong>, Gogol Bordello<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Gogol Bordello, for calling us out on our bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>Because their brains\u2014Louise, Leon, and Lydia\u2019s\u2014growl and smash and spin just like this song. Sometimes they can find beauty in it, and sometimes they can\u2019t. Louise has postpartum depression; Lydia is an obsessive-compulsive hand washer; Louise and Leon argue and make up and argue again. Then there\u2019s that disease slumbering inside Louise\u2019s blood, bones, DNA.<\/p>\n<p>And one day it\u2019s going to wake up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freeman Etudes: Books 1 and 2, #1<\/strong>, John Cage<\/p>\n<p>Louise experiences the world through music. Her illness, which makes her cello-playing hands palsy and her legs drag, feels like a high-pitched squeal to her, like a constant C-sharp. When her fork rattles against her plate because she can\u2019t hold it steady, she calls it her \u201cknife-on-fork concerto,\u201d and Imaginary John Cage praises her at the kitchen table while her husband and daughter pretend not to notice.<\/p>\n<p>Living in her body begins to be unbearable, atonal,\u00a0 her limbs a clanky jumble. She can\u2019t let her daughter see it, so she goes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBorn on a Train\u201d by The Magnetic Fields<\/strong>\u2014I went to college in the late \u201990s. Did you think I could create a playlist that didn\u2019t have The Magnetic Fields? Of course not. I had this song stuck in my head for about three years when I was writing this book, and my daughter loved it as a lullaby. I would sing it out loud to her, and when I got to that line: \u201cOne of these days, I\u2019m going to leave you in your sleep,\u201d the horrible ramifications of Louise\u2019s decision would hit me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs she really going to leave her daughter?\u201d I would think, while my daughter grabbed at my index finger. \u201cIt\u2019s unforgivable,\u201d I would think, in that moment in her darkened bedroom. But then on the drive back from visiting my dying mother, I would think, \u201cI wish she\u2019d spared me this. Louise was right to spare Lydia this.\u201d So there you go. No answers and an impossible dilemma like all of motherhood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up the Wolves<\/strong>, Mountain Goats<\/p>\n<p>Lydia\u2019s pretty fucked up after Louise leaves. She\u2019s furious, terrified, and addicted to extraordinary and extravagant lies. \u201cMy mother\u2019s playing the cello for pandas in China,\u201d she says; \u201cShe\u2019s exhuming mass graves in Spain;\u201d \u201cShe\u2019s drinking coffee in Cuba.\u201d She\u2019s not gone, she says in all of these different lies, she\u2019s just on a trip. The implication being she\u2019s going to return, that \u201cthere\u2019s going to be a party when the wolf comes home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Famous Blue Raincoat<\/strong>, Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n<p>This song is the spine of the book. They talk about it all the time. Louise listens to it over and over again when she starts to get sick. She wants to build a little house deep in the desert, she wants to die there. And eventually she does.<\/p>\n<p>After she dies, when Lydia sits with her body in that house deep in the desert, Louise sends her a coded message through \u201cFamous Blue Raincoat.\u201d Louise asks for forgiveness and Lydia sort of, sort of gives it to her.<\/p>\n<p>Lydia rewrites that final stanza so it reads, \u201cWhat can I tell you? My mother, my killer. What can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you. I guess I forgive you. I\u2019m glad you stood in my way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fake Empire<\/strong>, The National<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the aughts. Louise is dead, Bush is president. Lydia is trying to build a life and not think about her own mortality. Pick some apples, make some pie. But there\u2019s a shadow lurking. She\u2019s half awake and she knows it.<\/p>\n<p>During Lydia\u2019s second year of grad school, Simon has a conference at Brown, and so he stays with her for a long weekend. It\u2019s fall, and after he gives his talk, he plays hooky, and they drive thirty minutes into Massachusetts and go apple picking. It\u2019s a perfect day, the kind of perfect day that you know is a perfect day, and if you\u2019re Lydia, you try not to think too hard about the fact that it\u2019s a perfect day because you\u2019re worried you\u2019ll fuck it up.<\/p>\n<p>They go back home and make an actual apple pie. Lydia shows him how to make pie crust because Louise, although she performatively rejected domesticity, was actually very good at baking.<\/p>\n<p>Simon has to fly back to England the next morning. They eat pie and have sex and he falls asleep with his head smushing one of her breasts, drooling. She\u2019s annoyed, but also filled with intense love and affection for him. <em>Maybe I won\u2019t get sick<\/em>, she thinks. <em>It\u2019s possible I won\u2019t get sick<\/em>. But she knows she will.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, she\u2019s underslept and slow, and Simon is pissed at her because he\u2019s anxious about missing his flight. The visit ends on a sour, squabbly note. When she gets back from the airport, she closes the shades, climbs into bed, and listens to \u201cFake Empire\u201d over and over again, because she\u2019s a grad student and can get away with doing absolutely nothing for a day. And every time she listens to the song, she thinks <em>Maybe I can have more perfect days like that, maybe there\u2019s no scarcity<\/em>. But she knew she was lying to herself.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d planned on making a bunch of apple pies and bringing them to her seminar, but that was too exhausting, because pie crust was actually hard to make, and she didn\u2019t want to clean the food processor because the butter slimed up all the tiny crevices. So the apples just sat there, and then when she got fruit flies, she threw them away.<\/p>\n<p>Note: I love the live version of this song. The raw grief and rage in his voice, the way it cracks open like the song cracks open, like denial cracks open.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Departure (Home)<\/strong>, Max Richter<\/p>\n<p>I rewatched \u201cThe Leftovers\u201d recently, and I\u2019ve been listening to Max Richter non-stop ever since. If this book were a movie, this would be playing during Lydia\u2019s death scene. She\u2019s high as fuck on morphine, and she thinks she\u2019s drifting down to the bottom of a pond with water lilies in her hair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m Going to Go Back There Someday<\/strong>, Gonzo<\/p>\n<p>Unfun fact: when I was a kid, we rented a cottage for two weeks every summer on the Cape. The man who owned the house next to us was a member of the original Muppet cast. He used to do puppet shows on his porch and we would watch from across the way. It was awesome. When I was nine, he died of AIDS. Ever since, I\u2019ve associated the Muppets with early and tragic death. Yup. The absurdity and goofiness of the Muppets is infused with pathos for me. But it makes me love them all the more. Hence, Gonzo\u2019s bittersweet ballad (how I love that blue Semitic-nosed, chicken-loving creature!).<\/p>\n<p>This song would be sentimental except it\u2019s sung by a gravelly-voiced Muppet. I also think Lydia had the Muppet Movie record and played it over and over again when she was a kid. So it makes sense that this song would run through Leon\u2019s head. I picture him looking out at the ocean in Santa Cruz, lonely but okay. Feeling connected to Louise and Lydia in some vague, unarticulated way, curious about the mystery of what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.substack.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.substack.com\/\">For book &amp; music links, themed playlists, a wrap-up of Largehearted Boy feature posts, and more, check out Largehearted Boy\u2019s weekly newsletter.<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><em>Sarah Yahm has worked as an educator, oral historian, documentarian, and writer. She\u2019s taught at colleges and universities, and in public parks and elementary schools. She\u2019s published in\u00a0Slate,\u00a0Bellevue Literary Review, and placed pieces on NPR and affiliates, among others. In her work as a writer and an academic, she\u2019s focused on the lived experience and social meaning of illness and disability. She lives in the woods in Central Vermont with her family.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"\/>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/support-largehearted-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider supporting the site to keep it strong.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. 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