Too Opinionated Interview: Karen Green

Published: April 16, 2024, 2:31 p.m.

Yellow Birds, the debut novel by\xa0Karen Green\xa0is set just before the digital revolution, Kait is a young woman searching for identity and community among the cast-outs, cast-offs, and other \u201cmisfit toys\u201d\xa0 \u2013 groupies \u2013 who refer to themselves as the Yellow Birds and follow a band called the Open Road from town to town. Inspired by the Grateful Dead.
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Just as Kait believes she has found her place among the groupies travelling together in a messy van, a young man with the eye-roll worthy name of Horizon sits beside her and alters her fragile plan for the foreseeable future.
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Amidst the whirlwind of the groupie lifestyle,\xa0 their growing feelings soar to ecstatic heights, while propelling them toward an impending reckoning with their troubled pasts. Filled with sex, drugs, music, and even cults, readers won't be able to get enough of this bohemian love story, the groupie lifestyle, and the party within the party.

Karen Green is a writer and author whose editorial and creative work is widely published. Her essays, fiction, and poetry have been featured in several anthologies, and she is the author of two books for very young readers. Karen worked in the music industry for more than a decade and wrote the popular blog, The Kids Are Alright.\xa0

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