A Lesser Light

by Peter Geye

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 Lake Superior. When his new wife, Willa, arrives on the first spring ferry, it's clear her life has taken the opposite turn: after being...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517916372
• ISBN13: 9781517916374
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"