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Magdalena

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Magdalena will be released by Regal House Publishing in the summer of 2023. It was on the short list of finals in the William Faulkner William Wisdom Novel Competition and is currently a finalist in the Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards. Magdalena takes an intimate look at a woman who changes her life by changing her story. Sam’s Town is a small, secluded town that thrives on gossip and superstition. Dottie offers plenty of both when the scandal breaks about the missing girl, the ghost, and the affair that started it all. Fifteen-year-old Magdalena is a self-proclaimed “sensitive” who offers to conjure Dottie’s dead boyfriend. Dottie is the town’s outcast, easily manipulated by the crafty girl. Lonely and still mourning four miscarriages, Dottie becomes less intrigued with Magdalena's supernatural abilities than with having a real child in her childless home. In a blur between fantasy and reality, Dottie tries to heal her long broken heart by pretending Magdalena is her daughter. She grows obsessed with the girl, following her around town to make sure she is safe, cooking her dinner and buying her gifts. When Magdalena goes missing, the townspeople blame Dottie. She sets out, in a most unconventional way, to prove her innocence. A mail lady who walks through town followed by a murder of crows, a curious centenarian who proves to know more about Dottie’s story than even Dottie herself, an ex-mobster who is now in the witness protection program, and twin sisters who run a haunted inn all play into the peculiar tale of how Dottie finds her truth deep in her imagination.

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“This is a praiseworthy, poignant work.” Publishers Weekly

"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.


​The novel was made into a short film by Chase Michael Wilson. Check out the trailer:
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