Mixing pathos and humor in equal measure, East of Denver is an unflinching novel of rural
America, a poignant, darkly funny tale about a father and son finding their way together
as their livelihood inexorably disappears.

"I was driving from Denver to the farm with a dead cat in the back seat of my
car."

When Stacey "Shakespeare" Williams arrives at his family's farm in eastern
Colorado, he finds more than just a cat that needs burying. His widowed and
senile father, Emmett, is living in squalor, and Unabelle, the elderly neighbor
who'd been caring for him, lies dead behind the locked bathroom door-
between Emmett's senility and Shakespeare's anosmia, neither man detected
the smell.

With no job and no prospects, Shakespeare suddenly finds himself
care