Peter geye’s new novel Available April 15, 2025
A Lesser Light time-travels to 1910 Lake Superior, where the new lighthouse station's forbidding keeper and his brilliant, disenchanted wife collide with their secrets and struggle to face the future
“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
“This novel is a great feat of literary imagination.”
—Charles Baxter, author of Blood Test
“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. 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
“In this tempest of a novel, Peter Geye has bound together husband and wife on the bleak cliffside of an ill-suited marriage, where wolves howl, shipwrecks haunt, lovers meet in secret, and hope arcs in stardust. I will never forget this achingly beautiful story with its prose that sings through the soul.”
—Carol Dunbar, author of The Net Beneath Us
“Once again, Peter Geye has gifted us with his literary wizardry. In A Lesser Light, he led me on a time-travel journey that kept me gasping at the turn of every page.” —Carolyn Holbrook, author of Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify