June Calloway
🖋️ Novelist & essayist · Three books, one stubborn typewriter · New novel out this fall
The desk where “The Glass Orchard” was written, one page at a time.
“The orchard kept its secrets the way glass keeps light — visibly, and all at once.”
📚 Publication day
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Early praise
Luminous. A debut that reads like a fifth novel — assured, aching and quietly funny.
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The Morning Review
Books of the Fall
Calloway writes families the way cartographers draw coastlines: precisely, and with love for every jagged edge.
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Harriet Vane
Author of “Salt Meadow”
The rare book you ration, because you can’t bear for it to end.
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City Pages
Starred review
Also by me
The backlist, in print and audio
Winter Fictions
$16.00
The Lighthouse Letters
$18.00
Field Notes: Essays
$14.00
Glass Orchard: Audiobook
$22.00
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