The Turn of the Karmic Wheel by Monica M. Brinkman

Her laughter fills the airwaves and her heart fills the world. She supports the EBMRF Foundation in its search for a cure for the genetic disease Epidermolysis Bullosa. Ms Brinkman enjoys the beauty in life, choosing to be positive in a sometimes very negative world. She is also a contributing author in 25 Years in the Rearview Mirror: 52 Authors Look Back with her story, My Life As A Singing Telegram. The sequel, The Wheels Final Turn, is expected to release in 2013.

Her novel, The Turn of the Karmic Wheel, reflects this belief. Monica Brinkman believes in a humanitarian world. Brinkman is a radio talk show host, poet, artist, author and columnist. All of the stories then become one story, a novel, as heavenly music sings around a tree in a garden and the metaphor of karma becomes manifest in the lives of all kinds of people living a small town where voices that aren't there are heard and light starts to sing into some lives and begins to bring light to others.Īfter reading a novel like this, I think I'll try to be a good man today.Monica M. Karma in The Turn of the Karmic Wheel is not abstract, but a force that appears as the ghost of an elderly man's deceased wife as she tries to lead him to find the goodness he's always had inside or as a lizard growth on the skin of a real estate woman in her upscale home as her life destroying 'deals' create inside her the nightmare that she is insideįashioned like a book of short stories were each individual tale is piled on top of each other, one character returning as another character's story finishes in a segment, The Turn of the Karmic Wheel becomes increasingly intense as Joseph, a young child imprisoned in a mentally ill woman's cage in a locked room, and Euclid, a kind old man who has failed to commit suicide even though he really, really tried, and Monty, a grifter who has developed a stink stronger than a skunk's, hurtle to their moment of destiny. What I most enjoyed in Monica Brinkman's novel is how she imagines the answer to this question. What if karma was not just an invisible force in the universe that scales good and bad behavior, but instead is manifest, a presence that is clearly alive in individual lives? A music that is heavenly or dark based upon how how someone has lived their life?

The Turn of the Karmic Wheel by Monica M. Brinkman