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        Set against the turmoil of late 70's Bay Area California, KARMAFORNIA spins the latest incarnation of a love triangle. When ambitious Laura, new to grad school and Berkeley, and her go-with-the-flow boyfriend Walt, meet bright arrogant fruitarian Cob at a party, she strikes sparks with him while Walt sees trouble coming. Their struggles with history and desire play out against the backdrop of Proposition 13, the Jonestown tragedy, the SF City Hall murders of Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk, the rise of "new wave" punk rock, and the Twinkie defense. The suicide of Cob's opposite number, a free-spirited nomad, catalyzes this trio to act on what's best in themselves. Even so, intention meets karma and loses – again.
      Laura's eventual choice between the men she loves, compromised by her desire to hold on to both, brings this novel to its stunning conclusion. Hitch a ride with these characters, and come away glad you've met.

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What the critics say:
"In 1978, two young lovers leave Boulder, Colo., and head to Berkeley, Calif., where they struggle with life's messy problems and intrusions in this capable, well-developed look back at an edgy, bygone time. Arriving at the University of California, Berkeley, Laura – with free-spirited boyfriend Walt in tow – begins graduate studies in biology. It isn't long before she meets fellow student Cob, an irresistible fruitarian from Nebraska with whom Laura eventually has a passionate affair replete with unbelievable orgasms. But the relationship with Cob – and the sex – lacks love, and Walt is summoned to the rescue. This love triangle plays out against the background of the political and social upheaval of the time, with Weil referencing everything from the controversial Proposition 13 – which rolled back property taxes – to the mass suicide by cult members of Jim Jones's People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. Weil ably captures the period, while convincingly delineating her characters." Publishers Weekly, Oct 17, 2011, p. 41.



"If you want to reminisce about Berkeley during the period of the Jonestown massacres, the shooting of Harvey Milk, the Dead Kennedys and “Box of Rain” with a hefty dose of drugs and sex, or if you just want a good read about that period, the tightly written and thought-provoking Karmafornia will engross you... The love and sex triangle... sets the theme for this rip-roaring book [and] culminates in a surprise ending."
Lorine K. Pergament, Winner, 2008 F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest

"Groovy... Lyrical."
Aaron Ritchey, The Never Prayer, Crescent Moon Press

"KARMAFORNIA is brilliant, edgy literary fiction that stuns, informs, titillates, awes, disturbs, enlightens, stuns (yes, I repeat that word—because of its stunning conclusion). Weil's writing is amazing--crisp, witty, deep!  The characters’ points of view change almost seamlessly. The story is fast moving, well paced; the snappy dialogue filled with astute observations about life.  Though knowing KARMAFORNIA was a story about a love triangle, I had not expected it to be so graphic with characters tripping on drugs and sex. Yet I soon realized that it had to be this way in order for Weil to show (and enable the reader to feel) the complexities of the characters (mainly of Walt, Laura, and Cob but others as well), their relationships and the impact of their choices.  In spite of the number of characters, they all connect, and it works, even though sometimes I found it difficult to like some of them.  Weil balances the heavy descriptions with lighter ones such as: “The faintest breeze carried the green smell of water up the bank; light of the high half moon between the sycamores spread across the wrinkling surface of the Feather River.”  She is a master of metaphors and symbolism-- flying, wings, butterflies and other devices are ingenious.  By late in the story, it’s clear to the reader, even before one of the characters says or thinks it, free love is not free.   And at the haunting end of the book, while in awe of Weil’s enormous talent, I felt sad and disillusioned.  Perhaps that is Weil's point, that given all that happens in the 271 pages, there can be no happy ending."
Carla Danziger, author of Hidden Falls, a mystery/romance novel set in Norway

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