Pamela Ryder’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him (opens in new tab)

"The music herein may take you a place you may not want to go: to a graveside perhaps, or a deathbed, or simply to a wasted day. It may remind you what the Navajo believe: that if a sunrise finds you still asleep, God will simply assume you are dead."