Cleave the Sparrow feels a bit like somebody trapped a philosophy lecture, a political satire, a quantum physics rant, and a mushroom trip inside the same audiobook and then shook it violently before pressing record.

The story starts around Wilder Crick, the least likable US presidential candidate imaginable in history, a man who seems to hate basically everyone while obsessing over the idea that reality itself is fake. To prove the point, he shoots himself in the face during a live presidential debate to prove it.

After that, Tom a reluctant reporter following Crick ends up dragged into Crick’s strange post-death orbit and becomes presidency itself, while the story starts spiralling through ideas about consciousness, ego death, pain, religion, quantum mechanics, and […]
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