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Jennifer Vido | Jen’s Jewels Interview: WHAT WILD WOMEN DO by Karma Brown
Jen's Jewels / October 20, 2023

Jennifer Vido: What inspired your new release, WHAT WILD WOMEN DO? Karma Brown: I have this memory of being about seven years old and sitting cross-legged in a rustic, wood-beamed lean-to at the Great Camp Sagamore in the Adirondacks. It was the height of summer, and everything smelled green and lush. We had little money when I was growing up, but my parents had a bountiful network of friends and a keen sense of adventure, and that was how we ended up being invited to stay at the camp. It was around 1979, and I am certain only mere fragments of this memory are accurate. However, the feeling of that place wormed into my younger self—the wonder of its history (Camp Sagamore had originally belonged to the gilded Vanderbilt family, and the cabin where my family stayed had been Gloria’s), the isolated beauty of its surroundings, and the fun to be had, including hours spent hand-setting pins with my sister in the camp’s open-air bowling alley. In many ways WHAT WILD WOMEN DO began simply as a love letter to my 1970s hippie-infused childhood, and that first magical visit to Camp Sagamore.   Jen: Let’s start with Rowan. What’s going…