[1][2][3][4][5] This book centers on the life of 18-year-old teen Leo Caraway, a member of the "Young Republicans" group at his school.

Leo's scholarship to Harvard University is revoked after "cheating" by helping a classmate.

Further on in the novel, however, he discovers that King Maggot is not in fact, his biological father.

It is instead Bernie, the man Leo considered up until that point to be his cousin.

Maggot pays for Leo's tuition money for Harvard university.