Friday Special Blend
Friday December 13th, 2024 with Gianluca Petti, Susan Johnston, Micah Petti
Gianluca's Best of 2024. Yellow Birds.

Karen Green joins Susan and Micah to talk about her novel Yellow Birds. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and even cults … take a “trip” in this bohemian love story. Set just before the digital revolution, Kait is a young woman searching for identity and community among the cast-outs, cast-offs, and other “misfit toys” who refer to themselves as the Yellow Birds and follow a band called the Open Road from town to town. Just as Kait believes she has found her place among a group of Birds travelling together in a messy van, a young man with the eye-roll worthy name of Horizon sits beside her one night and alters her fragile plan for the foreseeable future. Amidst the whirlwind of the Open Road Tour, their growing feelings for one another 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.