Good and bad karma

Are we rewarded and punished for what we do?

If ‘karma’ really does exist, I wish it were a little more obvious. It would be great to think good deeds will be rewarded and bad deeds punished. Too often criminals get off scot-free and truly good people never get a break. But maybe karma is just not obvious to us. Maybe, at a deeper level (or in another life if you believe in this possibility) what we do will be repaid in ways we are not even aware of.

In all three of my novels, karma is clearly at work. In The Way Things Fall, it takes fifteen years to catch up with Rachel, the protagonist, and punish her for a cowardly decision she made when she was young. In my second novel, In Love With The Night, karma forces many characters to fight with their conscience and take surprising paths to put things right.

And in my most recent novel, A Long Walk With Fate, karma plays out against the backdrop of Ma’at and Isfet, the Ancient Egyptian concepts of justice and chaos, causing one guilty character, Gabi, to be both the architect of her own punishment and the catalyst for new relationships and cathartic experiences for the people she has wronged.