Parrot and Olivier in America / Carey, Peter

A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville is set in the early nineteenth century and follows an unlikely friendship between a survivor of the French Revolution and an itinerant English engraver's son.

Depicts the unlikely friendship between Olivier, an aristocratic survivor of the French Revolution, and Parrot, the motherless son of an itinerant English printer who meet when they come to America. Their shifting narratives describe their adventures apart and together and describes the newly founded American democracy.