The Love, Lucy Playlist
Whatever else my new novel Love, Lucy is about--romance, Italy, finding your way in the world--it's also about music. At the book's start, Lucy has given up her first love--musical theater--in exchange for parental approval and a backpacking trip through Europe. Then when she meets Jesse Palladino, a New Jersey street musician busking his way through Italy, she starts to find her voice again. So of course there has to be a Love, Lucy playlist--the songs that might catch Lucy's ear in a Munich internet cafe or a boutique on the Via degli Strozzi. Songs she listens to on her iPod on the overnight train from Munich to Florence. Songs she revisits after returning home to Philadelphia, trying to recapture the thrill of her travels: Thanks to Ashley and Alexis of With Her Nose Stuck In a Book for inviting me to contribute Lucy's playlist, and this little riff on my song choices: *** When I graduated from college, my parents gave me...