Karma: What the clock did not count

KARMA
What the Clock Didn’t Count
In 1999, the earthquake in the Coffee Region destroyed much more than just the homes of a Colombian family. Before the century ends, María, a matriarch in her late seventies, gathers her ten children and numerous descendants at a farm between Pereira and Armenia. There, as she tells Jenn, her five-year-old granddaughter, stories from her youth, the adults begin to recognize the same tales they heard throughout their own childhoods.
But María has a confession to make. The stories her children think they know aren’t the ones that actually happened. They’re the versions she told them when they, too, were five years old. For decades, she protected their innocence by hiding love affairs, betrayals, murders, secrets, and decisions that changed the fate of entire generations. Now the time has come to tell them the truth. The children can keep the beautiful stories. Adults must know what really happened.
Over the course of nearly a century, from the streets of Madrid and the banks of the Magdalena River to the coffee plantations of Quindío, Bogotá, and the Washington D.C., a small ladies’ watch connects lives, generations, and seemingly unrelated destinies.
Karma: What the Clock Didn’t Count is a novel about memory, love, guilt, and the secrets that outlive those who kept them. It is an exploration of what we inherit without knowing it and of a question that spans generations: How much of who we are is truly our own, and how much belongs to those who lived before us?