King Cal

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Many novels set in the world of rock music depict stardom debauchery and deceit. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>King Cal</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> instead focuses on the creative process the devotion required to choose an uncertain life in music the inspiration for songwriting and the challenge of making the rent while making art.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the course of one ordinary day Atlanta fast food worker Calvin loses his girlfriend his band and his best friend. Suddenly everything he had planned to spend the rest of his life doing seems to have flown away. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Told with insight sensitivity and deep respect for what it really takes to make a life in music </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>King Cal</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a coming-of-age novel about a determined young man who starts with little aims to earn a little more and has to decide whether success or even clinging to his dream is worth the sacrifice. </span></p>