It isn't what you would expect from Science Fiction, in fact I don't like Science Fiction and refuse to classify it as such. It just happens to deal with exploring a new planet. But wait, don't stop reading. It's about a Jesuit priest looking for God(on another planet), ok, now you're reading, huh? This is The Sparrow, written by Mary Doria Russell. It isn't new, it's just that her newest book, Epitaph, (about the gunfight at the OK Corral) came in. I was excited to read it but another book lover said, have you ever read her first one?(1996)
When you start the book, Father Emilio Sandoz has survived and returned from a Jesuit mission to another planet.Dated Rome: December 2059- he's in pretty bad shape but the powers that be want to know what happened. There is a lot of suspicion of wrong doing(a lot of wrong doing)-he is the only survivor-but the narrative switches to the past to tell the story of the exploration. The naration continues to switch back and forth and you won't be able to put it down. The characters are wonderful and the plot is really not predictable-that's the way your English teacher likes it. That and the question of God. Emilio will have to tell you that
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