Steven Sparrow & the Shade of a Great Tree

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"But son, birds fly; that's just what we do! There's nothing quite like flying through the sky and all that blue!"

Steven’s charm and wit have inflated his confidence and disguised his laziness, but when he tries to skip out on Flying Day, he gets a response more honest than he can handle. Driven by a rabid hunger to live by rules he writes (and can rewrite), he runs away determined to prove he can live as a walking sparrow, a stunt never attempted for good reason.

Rescued by a trauma-riddled mouse after his first, harrowing night alone, the two form a partnership that forces Steven to obey the rules of the earth-bound. He struggles to adapt until fortune deposits them in a makeshift zoo with a benevolent caretaker. But is this pampered, easy existence all it appears to be?

When the brutal forces of nature finally catch up with Steven, will his stubbornness lead to a sentence worse than death—a life of isolation? Or will he be able to summon one of the greatest gifts in the Kingdom of Creatures to save everything important to him?

Careening between humorous and horrifying, Steven Sparrow & the Shade of a Great Tree is an emotional, thought-provoking tale about the greatest obstacle to a Good Life: our imperfect self. The weight of choice, the quest for redemption, and the power of family weave their way through this modern fable for all ages.