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Bokklubb: The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye

  • 913 East Franklin Avenue Minneapolis (map)

Norway House’s book club meets monthly. This is a great way to get to know others in our community and get in on some really great reads! Books are available for sale at ALSO Ingebretsen’s Gavebutikk at Norway House. There is no fee to attend.

About The Lighthouse Road

Against the wilds of sea and wood, a young immigrant woman settles into life outside Duluth in the 1890s, still shocked at finding herself alone in a new country, abandoned and adrift; in the early 1920s, her orphan son, now grown, falls in love with the one woman he shouldn’t and uses his best skills to build them their own small ark to escape. But their pasts travel with them, threatening to capsize even their fragile hope. In this triumphant new novel, Peter Geye has crafted another deeply moving tale of a misbegotten family shaped by the rough landscape in which they live--often at the mercy of wildlife and weather—and by the rough edges of their own breaking hearts.

From GoodReads

About Peter Geye

Peter Geye is the author of the award-winning novels Safe from the Sea, The Lighthouse Road, and Wintering, winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Northernmost, and, most recently, The Ski Jumpers.

Geye received his MFA from the University of New Orleans and his Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, where he was editor of Third Coast. He currently teaches the year-long Novel Writing Project at the Loft Literary Center. Born and raised in Minneapolis, he continues to live there with his family.


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