Little Faith

Resumen del libro

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 five-year-old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence and subsequent estrangement from her parents, Shiloh has finally come home. But, while away, she became deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor courting her is convinced Isaac has the spiritual ability to heal the sick.

Reckoning with his own faith - or lack thereof - Lyle soon finds himself torn between his unease about the church and the growing threat it poses to keeping his daughter and grandson in his life. Set over the course of one year and beautifully evoking the change of seasons, Little Faith is a powerful and deeply affecting novel about family and community, the ways in which belief is both formed and shaken, and the lengths we go to protect our own.

Biografía del autor

Nickolas Butler (Allentown, Pennsilvània, 1979) es va criar a Eau Claire, Wisconsin, i va estudiar a la Universitat de Wisconsin-Madison i al Taller dx{0026} x02019;Escriptors dx{0026} x02019;Iowa. Els seus textos han aparegut en diverses publicacions com The New York Times Review, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares i The Progressive. La seva primera novel-la, Shotgun lovesongs (2014), li va valdre un èxit notable de crítica i públic i la productora Fox Searchlight va adquirir-ne els drets per dur-la al cinema. També és autor de les novel-les Al cor dels homes (Empúries, 2017; nominada al Premi Médicis Estranger) i Little faith (2019), així com del recull de contes Beneath the bonfire (2015). Bona sort és la segona novel-la de Nickolas Butler que es publica en català.