/lit/ - Literature

Anyone read The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel? Man this book is super duper slow and I'm getting really tired of everyone's picture-perfect family style interactions with perfect puns and perfect emotions. And this straight up annoying shit is interspersed with the even more annoying "what I went through is too horrifying to describe but I will let it out in bits and pieces in a stupid roundabout way like a character from Ace Attorney"

Does this shit ever get good? Do we actually get to some interesting horror? Or is this just an "intellectual" circlejerk on theology