About

Author Candi Sary graduated from the University of California, Irvine. Her novel Magdalena won the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Fiction, a PenCraft award, and a Storytrade Award. Her previous novel Black Crow White Lie won Reader Views Literary Award, a CIBA, and was First Runner-Up in the Eric Hoffer Book Award. It was made into a short film by Chase Michael Wilson. A mother of two adult children, Sary lives in Southern California with her husband, a dog, a cat and several ducks. She can often be found surfing and paddling boarding in the waters of Newport Beach. She is a board member of Friends of the Costa Mesa Libraries, and a proud steward of a Little Free Library.

Praise For Candi Sary's First Novel

"This is a praiseworthy, poignant work."

-Publishers Weekly

"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

"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 anyHollywood hero."

-Chanticleer Book Reviews

"...a thoughtful and powerful book that's engaging, entertaining and smart."

-LA Books Examiner

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by Chase Michael Wilson