Karma

Shooting Stars is an intimate, profound, and moving novel that follows Felipe Santos, a young man of humble beginnings, as he rises in the academic and professional worlds of Colombia and Europe. Yet his true journey is internal: rebuilding himself through grief, guilt, and memory.
Over more than twenty years, the reader accompanies him through tennis clubs in Bogotá, universities in London, multilaterals in D.C., airports, funerals, soccer games, long silences, and late confessions. Throughout, he tries to answer a silent question that runs through his life: who am I when no one is watching?
Written with a fragmented structure that mirrors the chaos of memories and unresolved emotions, this novel explores themes such as undiagnosed trauma, mental health, social inequality, grief as a catalyst for change, pressures on masculinity, and the burden of family legacy.
Shooting Stars is more than a story about love or success. It is about everything lost on the path to what we believe we want. An exploration of the cost of belonging. A search - emotional, intimate, and sometimes brutal - for something resembling peace.