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[Unedited] Mary Doria Russell With Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Sparrow: A Novel Set in Dodge City in 1878

Do these characters who you've written about, whether it's a species on rakat that was, of which you were at the deity, that you created? Do you have some kind of spiritual kinship with them? They are generally, they're like old friends. And so I'm coming at this story from Doc's point of view. What is it like for a frail, sick, frightened young man to suddenly find himself on the rawest edge of the American frontier? You can't get back there.

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