The Sparrow

I really, really disliked this book. It's pretty much a tale of colonial missionaries translated to an encounter with alien species, but it seems to miss or excuse the arrogance and the hugely problematic aspects of missionaristic colonialism. The moralistic judgments made by the human characters are pretty horrendous, but I don't get the impression that the author recognizes that; in the end, the main characters' appalling behavior is excused and washed away.