Why read A Lesser Light?

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On the rocky shores of Lake Superior, a piercing story of selfhood and determinism develops: is the future what we're handed or what we make of it?

It's 1910, and Theodulf Sauer has finally achieved a position befitting his ego: master lighthouse keeper at a newly commissioned station towering above…

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Cary J. Griffith

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Full disclosure: I love Minnesota’s North Shore (of Lake Superior). I visit there often. It’s rugged and beautiful and passionate.

Peter Geye’s latest book is an epic set on Minnesota’s North Shore early in the last century. But it features two tortured souls. One who cannot let himself be known. The other who is making the best of her incredibly limited options. One of the two rises to become the human she was intended to be. The other suffers a fate by his own misstep.

Also full disclosure: I took Peter Geye’s year-long novel writing class the first year it…

From Cary's list on The best books featuring heroes journeys set in the outdoors and wilderness.