Little Faith
Little Faith by Nickolas Butler, published by HarperCollins on October 29, 2019, is a reprint edition comprising 352 pages. This novel explores the complexities of faith within a Wisconsin family as they confront the influence of a radical church on one of their own. Lyle Hovde, approaching his golden years, is content with his life alongside his wife, Peg, and their daughter, Shiloh, who has recently returned home after a troubled past. However, Lyle’s joy is overshadowed by concern for Shiloh’s newfound devotion to an extremist church and its pastor, who believes that Lyle’s grandson, Isaac, possesses the ability to heal.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into the power and limitations of belief, particularly as Lyle grapples with his own faith while trying to protect his family. The story unfolds over a year, capturing the changing seasons and the emotional landscape of family life in a small town. As Lyle faces the church’s radical beliefs and their potential threat to Isaac’s safety, he must make difficult choices that could alter the family’s dynamics forever. Little Faith presents a poignant examination of family, community, and the challenges of faith in contemporary life.
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In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church
Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence and subsequent estrangement from her parents, Shiloh has finally come home. But while Lyle is thrilled to have his whole family reunited, he’s also uneasy: in Shiloh’s absence, she has become deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor courting her is convinced Isaac has the spiritual ability to heal the sick.
While reckoning with his own faith—or lack thereof—Lyle soon finds himself torn between his unease about the church and his desire to keep his daughter and grandson in his life. But when the church’s radical belief system threatens Isaac’s safety, Lyle is forced to make a decision from which the family may not recover.
Set over the course of one year and beautifully evoking the change of seasons, Little Faith is a powerful and deeply affecting intergenerational novel about family and community, the ways in which belief is both formed and shaken, and the lengths we go to protect our own.
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