Five books about the power of music in fiction

Emme Lund is an author living and writing in Portland, Oregon. She has an MFA from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Time, The Rumpus, Paper Darts, and many more. In 2019, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Fiction.

The Boy with a Bird in His Chest is Lund's first novel.

At Lit Hub she tagged five "books I’ve read recently that speak to the power of music and dancing in our lives," including:

Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage

It is nearly impossible to talk about Andrew Sean Greer’s The Story of a Marriage and avoid spoilers, so I will simply say it is a beautiful novel about marriage, secrets, and building family. When Pearlie, her husband Buzz, and their friend Holland go dancing on a Saturday night, it is nothing short of a spiritual experience for Pearlie. She falls into a trance while dancing with a young man, which Greer renders so perfectly the reader falls under the same spell.

Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue