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Reminiscent of Mary Doria Russell's classic The Sparrow, this book explores concepts of first contact, missionary work, and the pain of love at a distance in new, moving, and sometimes heartbreaking ways. Peter Leigh has traveled to a distant planet to bring the Bible to an alien population who found Jesus through human colonists, and begged for a preacher to be sent from Earth. While he works with the natives, and finds his life full of joy and meaning for the first time in years, events back o
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