Black Crow White Lie
"This is a praiseworthy, poignant work."
Publishers Weekly,
review from the 2010 ABNA contest
-Winner of the 2012 Reader Views Literary Award for the West-Pacific Region
-First Runner-up in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for fiction
-Honorable Mention in the San Francisco Book Festival
-Top 6 Finalist in the William Faulkner William Wisdom Writing Competition
-Semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Black Crow White Lie (Casperian Books, 2012) is available from Casperian Books, Amazon.com and other online bookstores
Casperian Books:
http://www.casperianbooks.com
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Crow-White-Candi-Sary/dp/193408137X
Barnes and Noble:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-crow-white-lie-candi-sary/1111649057
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Set amid the seedy motels of Hollywood, California, Black Crow White Lie tells the story of Carson Calley, a young boy who grows up living a transient lifestyle with his fortune-telling mother, Juliette Bravo, an alcoholic full of stories about their former lives together. Believing his mother’s tales about his special powers, Carson becomes a healer, with the people of Hollywood waiting in long lines to see him. Carson secretly saves the money he earns from healing in the hopes of visiting his war-hero father’s grave in Washington, DC. But before he goes, Carson discovers that there is more to his mother’s stories than he realizes. Learning the truth about her exaggerations and lies, Carson begins to question his very identity. Is he really the healer his mother told him he was?
A mesmerizing debut novel, Black Crow White Lie explores the power of family relationships and illustrates how easy it is to fall prey to the fantasies of those who love us. The novel builds around a number of intriguing characters who exist on the fringes of Hollywood – the kindly tattoo parlor owner, Faris, who acts as a surrogate father to Carson; the island healer, Lolo, who teaches Carson how to develop his powers; the enigmatic head shop owner, Casper, who works as Carson’s business manager; and Juliette’s mysterious boyfriend, Jackson, who refuses to come near Carson yet maintains a long-term relationship with Juliette. A lonely and questioning boy, Carson must deal with the changes brought on by adolescence as he tries to come to terms with his mother’s addictive lifestyle, his fascination with a teenage classmate, Rose, and his own powers. In Black Crow White Lie, Sary has created a story notable for its realistic portrayal of life with an alcoholic parent and a teenager’s attempts to decipher his family history as he struggles to develop his own identity in the world.
Publishers Weekly,
review from the 2010 ABNA contest
-Winner of the 2012 Reader Views Literary Award for the West-Pacific Region
-First Runner-up in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for fiction
-Honorable Mention in the San Francisco Book Festival
-Top 6 Finalist in the William Faulkner William Wisdom Writing Competition
-Semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Black Crow White Lie (Casperian Books, 2012) is available from Casperian Books, Amazon.com and other online bookstores
Casperian Books:
http://www.casperianbooks.com
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Crow-White-Candi-Sary/dp/193408137X
Barnes and Noble:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-crow-white-lie-candi-sary/1111649057
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Set amid the seedy motels of Hollywood, California, Black Crow White Lie tells the story of Carson Calley, a young boy who grows up living a transient lifestyle with his fortune-telling mother, Juliette Bravo, an alcoholic full of stories about their former lives together. Believing his mother’s tales about his special powers, Carson becomes a healer, with the people of Hollywood waiting in long lines to see him. Carson secretly saves the money he earns from healing in the hopes of visiting his war-hero father’s grave in Washington, DC. But before he goes, Carson discovers that there is more to his mother’s stories than he realizes. Learning the truth about her exaggerations and lies, Carson begins to question his very identity. Is he really the healer his mother told him he was?
A mesmerizing debut novel, Black Crow White Lie explores the power of family relationships and illustrates how easy it is to fall prey to the fantasies of those who love us. The novel builds around a number of intriguing characters who exist on the fringes of Hollywood – the kindly tattoo parlor owner, Faris, who acts as a surrogate father to Carson; the island healer, Lolo, who teaches Carson how to develop his powers; the enigmatic head shop owner, Casper, who works as Carson’s business manager; and Juliette’s mysterious boyfriend, Jackson, who refuses to come near Carson yet maintains a long-term relationship with Juliette. A lonely and questioning boy, Carson must deal with the changes brought on by adolescence as he tries to come to terms with his mother’s addictive lifestyle, his fascination with a teenage classmate, Rose, and his own powers. In Black Crow White Lie, Sary has created a story notable for its realistic portrayal of life with an alcoholic parent and a teenager’s attempts to decipher his family history as he struggles to develop his own identity in the world.
