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The Road North
Cal before Chicago. Leaving Tampa, the years alone, the long drive west and then north, and the workshop and the street that slowly became home. The road that made him.
Read on Amazon ›Queer literary fiction
A woodworker named Cal, and the love story he didn't plan for.
The Cal series follows a maker through the slow work of building a life worth staying in. It is set in Wicker Park, Chicago, and told with restraint, because restraint is the only honest way to tell it. The first three books are available now.
The Cal series
Cal before Chicago. Leaving Tampa, the years alone, the long drive west and then north, and the workshop and the street that slowly became home. The road that made him.
Read on Amazon ›The love story, present tense. The person who walked through the door and stayed, and the table that got built along the way.
Read on Amazon ›The permanent move. The table finished, the life chosen on purpose, and the things that arrive exactly where they were always heading.
Read on Amazon ›Books Four through Six are forthcoming.
About the author
Nate Callaway writes literary fiction about gay men, chosen lives, and the slow work of becoming someone you can live with.
The Cal series is the work. It is a love story told quietly, because that is the only way it stays true.