A LESSER LIGHT launch event at Norway House with Peter Geye and Valley Bookseller
April 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm CST
Peter Geye will celebrate the launch of his new novel, A Lesser Light, at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15 at Norway House as part of Literature Lovers’ Night Out, with book sales by Valley Bookseller.
Set on the shore of Lake Superior in 1910, A Lesser Light tells the story of a newly commissioned lighthouse station, its keeper, and an ill-suited arranged marriage. Theodulf Sauer and his new wife, Willa, couldn’t be less similar, but they build a life together, and Willa finds solace in the cosmos and their neighbors across the cove. As Theodulf reckons with the past and Willa begins to forge her own path to happiness, tragedy comes to their remote beacon, and the future plunges into the dark unknown.
“A Lesser Light is Peter Geye’s masterpiece. The prose is as beautiful as the haunting landscape of Lake Superior. Readers will be enthralled when they meet the inhabitants of the lighthouse island. Open your heart, let in the light, and prepare to be awestruck by the magnificence of this novel.” —Pamela Klinger-Horn, Valley Bookseller
“Reading this book felt like watching some rare celestial event: sky-big, beautiful and strangely tender, and full of a kind of magic at the edge of things that’s impossible to describe and changes you forever to witness.” —Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You
“In A Lesser Light, Peter Geye paints an unforgettable picture of Minnesota, one in which history leaps to life. This wonderful book presents a completely immersive and absorbing world, masterfully rendered. With tenderness, humor, and deep insight, Geye traces the paths of a community living around and in service to a lighthouse, among them a stern and religious keeper; his prickly, lonely new wife; a local man unexpectedly a guardian to his orphaned niece; and the niece herself, each of them keeping secrets and struggling to face the future. Their choices make for a surprising literary page-turner that—like all good historical fiction—teaches us how to live in the present.” —V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of Brotherless Night
