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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: [Month XX, 2021]
[Name] Public Library to Hold Book Discussion [Month XX] on 2021 All Iowa Reads Title: Little Faith by Nickolas Butler
[City Name]— The [Name] Public Library invites members of the community to a program on [Day, Month XX, 2021] at [X:XX p.m.] to discuss the 2021 All Iowa Reads title: Little Faith by Nickolas Butler.
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About the 2021 Title: Little Faith
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.
About All Iowa Reads and the Iowa Center for the Book
Established in 2003, the All Iowa Reads program from the Iowa Center for the book encourages Iowans to come together in their communities to read and talk about a single book title in the same year. The Iowa Center for the Book is a program of the State Library of Iowa with the mission to stimulate public interest in books, reading, literacy and libraries. Find out more at www.IowaCenterfortheBook.org.
The State Library of Iowa strengthens Iowa libraries and information access for Iowans. www.StateLibraryofIowa.org.
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