Little Faith: A Novel
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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, heโs also uneasy: in Shilohโs 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 faithโor lack thereofโLyle 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 churchโs radical belief system threatens Isaacโs safety, Lyle is forced to make a decision from which the family may not recover. ย
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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Nickolas Butlerย was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He is a graduate of the University of WisconsinโMadison as well as the Iowa Writersโ Workshop, and the author of the novelย The Hearts of Men,ย the internationally bestselling and prizewinning novelย Shotgun Lovesongs,ย and the acclaimed short story collectionย Beneath the Bonfire. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and their two children.
