Iris Calloway

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The Almanacof LeavingIRIS CALLOWAY
Forthcoming · 2027 · A Novel

The Almanac of Leaving

A family almanac, kept for six generations, predicts weather, harvests — and the exact year each family member will leave home for good. The seventh generation is the first to ask why anyone kept score.

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2024 · A Novel

The Quiet Line

When a cartographer inherits her estranged father’s unfinished survey of the coast, she finds the shoreline in his notebooks no longer matches the one on any map — and neither does her memory of the summer he disappeared.

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Salt andStaticIRIS CALLOWAY
2022 · A Novel

Salt and Static

Three sisters run the last commercial radio station on an island slated for evacuation. As the broadcast towers come down one by one, they take turns telling the story of how they got here — and who gets to decide when it ends.

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2020 · Stories

A Smaller Hunger

A debut collection of eleven stories about the appetites we’re taught to shrink — for food, for ambition, for leaving. Set in diners, tobacco barns, and the back seats of borrowed cars across the Piedmont.

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