Little Faith - Softcover

With its focus on spirituality and reverence for the joys of everyday life, Little Faith calls to mind Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Source: The New York Times

Set in rural Wisconsin, the story unfolds over a year, telling a story not just of people but of place ... This is storytelling at its finest. Source: USA Today

A tender and perceptive novel ... Little Faith is Butler's best so far, unafraid of sentiment yet free of the kitsch. Source: Wall Street Journal

A heart-wrenching look at family and the American mid-west Source: Stylist

Reminiscent of Elizabeth Strout, Butler draws characters you fall in love with almost immediately, through their flaws, their losses, their brokenness; there is an exceptional sense of place, the orchards and seasonal work adding to an acute awareness of time. Like the best writing, it doesn't call attention to itself but has a poetry all of its own. This is a profound book, that for all its sadness is uplifting. Author: Ruth McKee Source: Irish Times

[Peopled with] regular folks, behind whose plain-spoken reserve and dry humor beats the heart of the country, at once practical and passionate, poetic and earthbound.... Butler is very good at getting...the routines and rituals as subtly infused with personal history as with the changing of the seasons. Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

Breathtaking yet devastating ... Butler weaves questions surrounding faith, regret, and whether it's possible to love unconditionally into every page of this potent book. Source: Publishers Weekly, starred review

A beautifully realized meditation on the nature of parenting and living in a perplexing (and often cruel) world. Source: Library Journal, starred review

The novel's considerable appeal lies mainly in Butler's unashamed, touching and infectious fondness for Lyle and his vanishing way of life. Source: Daily Mail

'Subtle and heartfelt.. Little Faith examine[s] issues of family and community, and the role that faith and religion can play in both. Is it possible to love unconditionally, and if so, what does that mean for the self? Butler asks these questions with beautiful, rhythmic prose in a tale that tugs at the heartstrings without ever resorting to sentimentality. Wonderful.' Source: Big Issue