The Parrot and the Parakeet, the Canary and the Carny, a Menagerie of Metaphors

This is a battle between two people, Pau and Maynot.

It extends beyond literary rights to personal bankruptcy and unexpected pregnancy.

Pau, in pursuit of his royalties, culminates in a supposed New York book fair and then much later to Beijing for a book signing.

In between Pau hits Morocco aborting a Ukraine war effort.

Afterwards, there is a son and a much needed vacation in Jamaica.

It all comes to a head after Junior kills himself in which Pau resigns himself to AA, the midterms, the inflation, and the idiocy of a sleeping public upon which he thereby decides to keep his books to himself. About the Author: Al is man who reflects on all the birds he would have liked to have defeathered.