Knights of the Secondhand Stew — Charles Morgan

Gavin Troop, a self-righteous and utterly willful little man forms a residents group to complain about the smell of sewage in their suburb. But his blazing zeal takes the group higher and ever higher in the power politics of the land. Where will it end? How enormously will they change their suburb, their city, their land, the world even? And will Gavin, the son of an escapee from a sperm bank, finally find his father and understand why he was abandoned in his childhood?