California Calling: A Self-Interrogation

“This book split my heart open and reminded me how much immigrants matter, how much we all carry the traces of other worlds.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water

California Calling is a lyrical self-interrogation of obsession, emigration, and identity. Natalie Singer’s story opens in a courtroom on a witness stand, where she’s forced to testify in a family breakup that changes the course of her life. At sixteen Natalie emigrates from Montreal and the secrets it holds to the ...