More with Cal and Uncle Bill

"But for bad luck, Cal Daniels might have gone somewhere in life. Instead he
wound up a forty-year-old overnight grocery stocker and ex-con living in
his Uncle Bill?s back apartment in Temple City. Over a beer one morning after
work, Cal meets a woman and brings her home and nothing in life will be the
same. From the daily journal he began in prison, Cal recounts the events that
began that day as it seems every step away from that morning somehow brings
him two steps back toward it and before it ends, his infamous background will
give way to a different kind of fame that will leave him well traveled and nearly
dead three times."