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Meet MAGDALENA
Dear Readers,
Is it really March 11th already? Only four months away from my novel’s July 11th release. I’m so excited to share MAGDALENA with you all!
The novel holds a special place in my heart. I began writing it the year my two kids went off to college. Faced with both the newness and sadness of the empty nest, I started working on a new manuscript. I thought I was writing a ghost story but my protagonist, Dottie, kept pulling me in another direction. The lonely woman had suffered four miscarriages. One day her fifteen-year-old neighbor Magdalena, a self-proclaimed ‘sensitive,’ came to the door and offered to conjure a ghost. Dottie was less intrigued with the girl’s supernatural abilities than with having a real live girl in her home. With each visit, Dottie began to secretly pretend that the girl was her daughter. Somehow this make-believe motherhood began to heal her broken heart—until Magdalena went missing. The plot is full of mystery and suspense, but at the heart of the story is Dottie’s longing for motherhood, and how she uses her imagination to heal her sadness. Only after I’d completed the first draft did I realize that writing MAGDALENA was my way of mourning the empty nest. Like Dottie, I was using my imagination to heal my own sadness.
Siel Ju, author of CAKE TIME says, “This dark and delicate novel is a mesmeric read.”
I hope you’ll add it to your Goodreads bookshelf: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
And if you’d like to preorder it, you can order from your local bookstore, or check out the links here: https://www.candisary.com
In the meantime, I’d love to hear what you’re reading right now. Feel free to share in the comments!
Best wishes,
Candi Sary
Is it really March 11th already? Only four months away from my novel’s July 11th release. I’m so excited to share MAGDALENA with you all!
The novel holds a special place in my heart. I began writing it the year my two kids went off to college. Faced with both the newness and sadness of the empty nest, I started working on a new manuscript. I thought I was writing a ghost story but my protagonist, Dottie, kept pulling me in another direction. The lonely woman had suffered four miscarriages. One day her fifteen-year-old neighbor Magdalena, a self-proclaimed ‘sensitive,’ came to the door and offered to conjure a ghost. Dottie was less intrigued with the girl’s supernatural abilities than with having a real live girl in her home. With each visit, Dottie began to secretly pretend that the girl was her daughter. Somehow this make-believe motherhood began to heal her broken heart—until Magdalena went missing. The plot is full of mystery and suspense, but at the heart of the story is Dottie’s longing for motherhood, and how she uses her imagination to heal her sadness. Only after I’d completed the first draft did I realize that writing MAGDALENA was my way of mourning the empty nest. Like Dottie, I was using my imagination to heal my own sadness.
Siel Ju, author of CAKE TIME says, “This dark and delicate novel is a mesmeric read.”
I hope you’ll add it to your Goodreads bookshelf: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
And if you’d like to preorder it, you can order from your local bookstore, or check out the links here: https://www.candisary.com
In the meantime, I’d love to hear what you’re reading right now. Feel free to share in the comments!
Best wishes,
Candi Sary
