Calling Out Your Name

by Ned White

For 16 year-old Woody Elmont, life in rural Georgia is a tolerable routine of caring for his aging Aunt Zee, hanging out with his friend Natalie, or minding his developmentally disabled younger brother, Tick, who was born "a few pickles short of a barrel" and has "a temperament more rambunctious than a ferret." It is Tick's uncontrollable kleptomania that lands him in a nearby home for troubled youth, from which he soon disappears, thereby propelling Woody on a grand and improbable cross-country adventure to learn the truth of his brother's fate.

Risking life and limb for duty's sake, Woody careens through events and characters both intriguing and menacing, through the South, the Plains, and deep into the West. Closing in on the truth, his quest becomes increasingly a journey of hardship, courage, and startling self-discovery.

"Ned White has created a memorable hero...(and) a wonderful, adventurous coming-of-age story that takes the Georgia teenager on a daring journey from Macon to Malibu and from adolescence to maturity." - Don O'Briant, former book editor for Atlanta Journal Constitution

225 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2009

About the author

I've been writing steadily since college - novels, stories, plays, poetry, and teleplays (including several programs for PBS, HBO, and local TV). I also construct crossword puzzles for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other publications.

My first novel, THE VERY BAD THING, was published by Viking Penguin, sold modestly, earned some good reviews. Since then I've had several fine agencies representing new work, but ultimately (spring 2009) I chose to self publish three novels I've written over the last several years.

CALLING OUT YOUR NAME is an adventure story for young adults, set largely in the Deep South in the recent past: a rural Georgia teenager sets off on an improbable journey to find his developmentally disabled younger brother, who's apparently run away.

PLACE is adult literary fiction... about a woman who disappears, quite literally.

STRING THEORIES, to be republished in March 2016, is also adult literary fiction - a "physics love story" and adventuresome romp set in New Mexico.

BILLY BUCK is harder to described. Take a look at t.

All are available on Kindle, Amazon, and from me via ayPal (free shipping).