Researching and writing this book was a painful project, though not entirely. After all, it meant spending many hours in the company of my sister. The person I remember loving before I had language for the feeling. The one I spoke my first words to. The girl who taught me the magic of make-believe and the transporting power of music. For nineteen years, I got to be her sister. Here, in her memory, are nineteen songs.

—Introduction to the Annotated Playlist for Everywhere I Look