Monument: A Novel

A Young Drifter’s Ascent from Prairie Tragedy to the Dark Rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany.

Monument is a novel of desperation and aspiration. George Gexler, a young German-American, flees high plains natural wonder and sudden tragedy in the lengthening shadow of the Great Depression, joining America’s nomadic homeless riding the rails with hope in the distance and mortal danger close at hand. On Mount Rushmore’s eastern face, he is with the genius sculptor Gutzom Borglum and the men jackhamm...