Shithead Lockdown & Quantum Entanglement

What happens when an entire country is locked down, toilet paper becomes precious, cigarettes and alcohol disappear from the shelves, politicians make increasingly strange decisions — and a resident gecko appears to understand quantum physics?

Shithead Lockdown & Quantum Entanglement is Mike Grobler’s humorous diary of South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown, written as events unfolded. What began as daily Facebook posts soon became a chronicle of life under “house arrest”, complete with fellow household “inmates”, questionable survival tips, hadedas, disappearing cigarettes, government regulations, international news and the unpredictable exploits of Shithead — a gecko whose apparent ability to teleport can only be explained by quantum entanglement.

Blending personal observation, South African humour, satire and the frustrations of an extraordinary period in history, Mike Grobler finds something to laugh about even when the world outside has stopped making sense. The result is less a conventional novel than a humorous memoir of lockdown life — a distinctly South African snapshot of a time none of us is likely to forget.

Sometimes the best way to survive the absurd is simply to keep smiling.