“Peter Geye may well be the William Faulkner of the North Country. In Northernmost, the story of two generations in vastly separated times, he paints a stark, gripping landscape in which both survival and love are heart-rending struggles. If you’re concerned that today’s American novels are a wasteland of the mediocre, read Peter Geye. He will restore your faith in the compelling power of fiction.” —William Kent Krueger, author of This Tender Land

“Northernmost is rich in history, adventure, and love. A study of marriage and family across time and geographies, Peter Geye offers a restrained, emotionally complicated tale of men and women whose lives are lived in the cold expanse of their yearnings and desires. The descriptive language is exquisite. Geye understands the fine balance between who we are born to be and how we birth ourselves across the seasons of our lives.” —Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Song Poet

“Lost in the Arctic, a man struggles to survive, while in Minnesota, five generations later, his great-great-great granddaughter struggles for her soul. How Peter Geye weaves these narratives together is a marvel of storytelling. The Arctic scenes will steal your breath, but the truest beauty here is within, the slow thaw of a frozen human heart learning, again, how to love. My God, what a book. This is why I read, and my question is where has Peter Geye been all my life? Please read this novel. It will freeze and unfreeze you sentence by sentence and leave you at the top of your world.” —Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter