Nickolas Butler

Monday, September 29 at 6:30PM

Hennepin County Library – Excelsior

337 Water Street, Excelsior

In-Person Event

Nickolas Butler is the internationally bestselling author of critically acclaimed novels like The Hearts of Men (2017) and Little Faith (2019). His breakout debut, Shotgun Lovesongs (2014), remains among his most enduring works to date. It centers around five lifelong friends who take wildly diverging paths in life but remain indelibly linked both to one another and to the small Wisconsin community they called home. Butler’s two most recent novels build on the author’s literary fiction bona fides with elements of suspense and romance, respectively. Godspeed (2021) follows three struggling construction partners who agree to build a lavish mansion for a mysterious client on an impossible deadline. The Financial Times calls it “an effective blend of rural fable and snow-lashed Rocky Mountain noir… The set-up is pure Hitchcock.” Butler’s latest, A Forty Year Kiss, is a poignant story of second chances and rekindled love. In a glowing review, Library Journal opines: “This is a love story, not only between Charlie and Vivian but also between the novel and the Midwest.”