CHARLIE QUIMBY
CHARLIE QUIMBY is the author of Monument Road, an Indie Next pick and Booklist Editors’ Choice in 2013. He began his writing career as a playwright and arts journalist, veered into corporate communications, and then founded a marketing agency that now purrs along without him. Along the way, he collected awards and developed the notion that he had a few good novels in him. A native Coloradan and adopted Minnesotan, he is at home in both places.
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
MONUMENT ROAD
A Novel
Leonard Self has spent a year unwinding his ranch, paying down debts and fending off the darkening. Just one commitment left: taking his wife’s ashes to her favorite overlook, where he plans to step off the cliff with her. Memories and encounters along the familiar road seem like obstacles—or they may be signs it’s not his final drive after all.
"Monument Road is beautiful and real, full of landscape imagery of the American Southwest as a poignant and sometimes haunting metaphor of our connections to the land."
—15 BYTES
INHABITED
A Novel
Meg Mogrin sells pricey houses, belongs to the mayor's inner circle, and knows more than she's letting on about her sister's death. Isaac Samson lives in a tent and believes Thomas Edison invented the Reagan presidency. When their town attracts a game-changing development, Isaac is displaced by the town's crackdown on vagrancy. As Isaac struggles to regain stability, Meg contends with conflicting roles of assisting the developer while serving on the homeless coalition. Isaac's quest to return a lost artifact soon intrudes into Meg's tidy world, digging up a part of her past she'd rather remained buried.
"Inhabited spotlights the complex forces behind the spaces we call home."
—MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE