Liner notes for the soundtrack to "The Death and Life of the Blackthorn City"

I have recently finished the almost-final draft of The Death and Life of the Blackthorn City, my thesis novel that's about what happens when the left-wing Quebecois insurgencies of the late 60s and early 70s result in the growth of an impenetrable thorn-hedge around a section of Montreal -- and what happens several decades later, when the heiress to the powers of the thorn-hedge falls in love with a Vietnamese-Canadian girl from the other side of the city.

So - for my own amusement - here is the playlist that I've made as I was writing the novel, and my notes thereupon!

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