Spotlight: Onions

Book Description:
Onions has just been sent to his 16th foster home, Despondent, he steals the purse of Sandrine, a retired circus performer. Instead of turning him in to the police, Sandrine enlists the boy in her fight against City Hall. In the process, Onions learns the importance of reading, having a worthwhile life-goal, and how to play the trumpet, his ultimate redemption. Sandrine is a strong role-model for pre-teens through 18-year-olds as she helps Charles Wesley Onions find meaning in life. A tragic event leads to the powerful, uplifting, and inspiring ending. Finally, Onions is a modern-day Holden Caulfield .. without the swearing.

About the Author:

Cy Young began his professional career as a dancer at the Empire Room of the Palmer House in Chicago. One night the six member dance troupe (two guys, six ladies) was invited to a party by an habitual customer whose apartment was one huge bedroom. The customer; Hugh Hefner! Cy moved to New York where he performed on Broadway, in Upstairs At The Downstairs revues, recorded for Painted Smiles records, wrote several produced musicals, co-starred at London’s Globe Theater in “Divorce Me Darling,” played opposite Buster Keaton in “Once Upon A Mattress,” had three plays published by French, has a song on the Streisand Third Album (“Draw Me A Circle”), wrote a short story, “The Schitzle Connection,”which won first prize in an Oklahoma City Writers’ competition and was later published by Twit Publishing (Winter/Spring 2011 Edition), and has now written his first ebook, “Onions”. Check out the book’s trailer on Cy’s website, onionsbook.com. Or click here: https://youtu.be/pFOzFIetrg8


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