title: Busy Monsters
text: # Busy Monsters
  
  Busy Monsters is the debut novel of William Giraldi, released in 2011. It centers on Charles Homar, a writer whose fiancée runs away with her colleague to catch an elusive giant squid, seemingly cutting ties with him. Charles attempts to regain her affection and finds himself budding into a strange cast of characters on the way.
  
  