BooksChatter: ☀ Black Crow White Lie

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for Black Crow White Lie, a Young Adult / Adult Coming of Age by Candi Sary (first published 1 October 2012; this second edition 11 October 2015, Blue Mary Books, 232 pages).

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PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and excerpt below. Read the first six chapters with Amazon Look Inside.

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Synopsis

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.

Teaser: Excerpt

“Putting my hands over her head I felt the tiny stars that always came. It felt like thousands of them came pouring out of my hands. I couldn’t see them with my eyes; I could only see them with my eyes closed. But I could feel them. They filled my hands with heat, and when I shared them with my mom, they made her feel better.
I don’t remember the first time I used the stars, just like I don’t remember the first time I used my voice. When I asked my mom how I got them, she said I just knew I had them in me—the same way I knew I had words in me.”

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About the Author

Candi Sary graduated from the University of California, Irvine.

Her awards for Black Crow White Lie include 1st Place in the Dante Rossetti Awards, winner of the Reader Views Literary Award for the West-Pacific, and first runner-up in the Eric Hoffer Award for fiction.

Her novel was also adapted into a short film by Chase Michael Wilson.

She lives in Southern California with her husband and two children. She can often be found surfing out in the waters of Newport Beach.

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