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Cleave the Sparrow is a darkly comic science fiction novel that blends political satire, philosophical inquiry, and apocalyptic spectacle. Set in a near-future America teetering on the edge of collapse, the story follows Wilder Crick, a brilliant but unhinged neuroscientist who has developed a revolutionary brain-machine interface called the pretzel. As the country spirals into chaos, Crick is persuaded to run for president. His platform? Transcend the ego. Literally. Told with biting wit and a deep philosophical undercurrent, Cleave the Sparrow explores questions of identity, consciousness, and power in a world where reality itself is increasingly up for debate. Part Philip K. Dick fever dream, part political farce, and part metaphysical quest, the novel is as much about the absurdity of modern life as it is about what lies beyond it. For readers of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Charlie Kaufman, Cleave the Sparrow offers a brainy, genre-bending ride through the end of the world-and out the other side.