Being rewarded with a pink slip after forty years of reliable service as a county mechanic changes a man. When George tells his family the crushing news, his oldest son, nicknamed Monkey and long his father’s favorite, doesn’t want to take it sitting down. Monkey enlists the help of his younger brother Kevin in his plan to make their father’s former employer pay for tossing him aside. Monkey is the story from four points of view of that plan, the changes it etches into Monkey’s family, and its devastating cost.
Being rewarded with a pink slip after forty years of reliable service as a county mechanic changes a man. When George tells his family the crushing news, his oldest son, nicknamed Monkey and long his father’s favorite, doesn’t want to take it sitting down. Monkey enlists the help of his younger brother Kevin in his plan to make their father’s former employer pay for tossing him aside. Monkey is the story from four points of view of that plan, the changes it etches into Monkey’s family, and its devastating cost.