For our inaugural book discussion we'll explore Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow.
When humanity discovers extraterrestrial life, it isn't the UN, the US, China, or any other country that sends the first contact expidition. Instead it is the Jesuits who launch a mixed group of religious and secular explorers. Eight humans leave Earth, but only a single priest returns: mutilated, broken, and devastated. What happened to the group of explorers? How could it have gone so horribly wrong?
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