Claude  Brown
"Salt-Noody, 15, doesn't know how he got his name, but likes to paint it all over the city with an aerosol can. Dujo, 16, had a mother who was a heroin worshipper. She went into a nod one day and has been there ever since. Mumps, 16, is a flashy dresser and the businessman of the group. ,When he finishes school he's going to open a chain of haberdasheries. Jill, 17, ex-prostitute, ex-junkie, avid Bible reader, graduate of both reform school and prison, wants to be a biologist and is mother to them all." -back cover
The Children of Ham