I chose this book for our book club because one of my oldest, dearest friends told me it was one of her favorite books. I read the first 50 pages, decided the book was far too sinister .. or rather, it produced so much anxiety that I didn't want to continue reading.
Another member of the club was already 200 pages in so I agreed to move forward.
The book was published in 1996. I suppose it's science fiction. The author did a great job predicting the effect the internet would have on our lives and the ubiquity of video and social media. She also predicted artificial intelligence would be taking more cerebral jobs.
The hero of the story is a Jesuit. He is a linguist from Puerto Rico... a wonderful, grounded service-oriented man who, in spite of 20 years as a priest, is still skeptical about God. A friend of his, an astronomer, finds life on another planet and they bring a group of friends who possess a variety of skills with them to the new planet. Some cool things happen, the Jesuit believes he finds God, then some very terrible shit happens, and the Jesuit feels that God is a monster.
It's a book about faith, suffering, and the ignorance of thinking you understand God's plan. I am glad I forced myself to read it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sparrow_(novel)
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