Book Discussion for Adults

Join us in Meeting Room A for a discussion of this year's All Iowa Reads selection, Little Faith by Nickolas Butler.  Copies are available for checkout at the library.  You may also join via Zoom if needed.  Please contact the library for the Zoom invitation.  Here is a synopsis of the book:

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.