Author Candi Sary graduated from the University of California, Irvine. She has been in the finals of several writing competitions, including the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards, and the Dahlonega Literary Festival Novel Contest. Her novel Black Crow White Lie won Reader Views Literary Award for the West-Pacific region, was a first place winner in the Dante Rossetti Awards, and was named first runner-up in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for fiction. It was made into a short film by Chase Michael Wilson. Sary is also a book reviewer at Underground Book Reviews. She lives in coastal Southern California with her husband and two children. Sary can often be found surfing out in the waters of Newport Beach.
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“This is a praiseworthy, poignant work.” Publishers Weekly from the semifinals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award "Sary succeeds in portraying teen angst without melodrama, in depicting compassion without sentimentality, and in creating a world of characters on the margins of society whose depth and complexity outshine any Hollywood hero." Chanticleer Book Reviews "Few novelists can arrestingly channel the voice of a neglected fourteen-year-old boy, half street urchin, half spiritual shaman, and emerge with an engaging first-person narrative that doesn’t drip with sentimentality or patronize teen culture. Candi Sary can…” Foreword Reviews Magazine |
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About the novel: Young Carson Calley has a rare and magical gift of healing, a gift which both defines him and threatens to betray him. He lives in Hollywood motels with his alcoholic, fortune-telling mother, Juliette. She nurtures his gift, but her ways are deceptive. She feeds the boy fantastical stories to convince him of his greatness. At fourteen, Carson finally wises up to her lies and his identity is completely shattered. Juliette is too deep in her addiction to help him separate the facts from the fictions, so he looks for answers on the streets of Hollywood. There he finds Faris, a tattoo shop owner, and Casper, a cashier at a head shop. These two unlikely mentors help this troubled yet extraordinary boy find his way to the truth.
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Sary's novel was made into a short film by Chase Michael Wilson |
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