Monkey Island (book)

Plot

Y.C. Clay Garrity's dad, an art director, was out of work; Clay's mother tained for a good job - but it wasn't enough, especially with a baby coming. Unable to cope, Dad disappeared; now, without warning, Clay's distraught mother has also abandoned him, leaving him in an unsavory welfare hotel. When a neighbor suggests calling the police, Clay bolts, afraid that becoming a foster child would mean losing his mother forever. He lands in a park with Buddy, a hard-working young black man who can't earn enough for a rent deposit, and with Calvin, a retired teacher who lost everything in a fire. Weeks later, their fragile existence is destroyed by an invasion of raging toughs who can save him now? ("the stump people") who demolish their meager, hard-won amenities and scatter the park's inhabitants.environmental hazard)|exposure]], is hospitalized.