Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
It is the sequel to *The Sparrow*, following Emilio Sandoz as he grapples with the aftermath of a catastrophic mission and explores themes of irreversible tragedy and the search for meaning across generations. The story continues his complex relationship with God and questions of faith and doubt.
I did bring copies of the first two books because I thought those were what you were going to talk about. Those are the ones I want to start with and talk about mostly.
— Episode: [Unedited] Mary Doria Russell With Krist...
Episode: [Unedited] Mary Doria Russell With Krista Tippett
It is the sequel to *The Sparrow*, following Emilio Sandoz as he grapples with the aftermath of a catastrophic mission and explores themes of irreversible tragedy and the search for meaning across generations. The story continues his complex relationship with God and questions of faith and doubt.
I did bring copies of the first two books because I thought those were what you were going to talk about. Those are the ones I want to start with and talk about mostly.
But what I discovered as I was writing was that I'm bilingual religiously but I am a Jew.
And that's really the underlying theme in both the sparrow and children of God, that God paints on a vast canvas and that his brush is time.
Episode: Mary Doria Russell — The Novelist as God
This sequel to "The Sparrow" continues to explore the theological and moral themes introduced in the first book. It features the return of Emilio Sandoz, who grapples with the aftermath of the events on Rakhat and questions the nature of God's involvement in the universe.
Humans and their ilk were God's problem as far as Shahn Fine was concerned, and the Almighty was more than welcome to them.
Genesis for Shahn was literal, let there be sunlight to power the system and the whole bias fear comes alive. God's chemistry with its swimming, dancing, fornicating ions, its tangled profligate undergrowth of plant legnons and cellulose, the matte-like hymns and porphorans, the helical proteins winding and unwinding. This was a glory Shahn Fine could appreciate.
If it is a mistake to hope for such a world then it is a magnificent mistake.