Peter Geye Author Event

Pete Geye Author Event

We are pleased to announce that Peter Geye will be the keynote speaker at the 2012 Friends of the Library Dinner, discussing his latest novel, The Lighthouse Road, an amazing work of fiction.  Peter will join us on Tuesday, October 9th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The dinner will be at the Petoskey-Bay View Country Club and is open to the public.  This is a ticketed event and reservations are required. Tickets to this event are $25.00 and include dinner.  For more information please contact the Petoskey Public Library at 231-758-3100 or click here. To reserve your seat, please contact Joyce Hutto at 231-529-6685 or send her an email

Peter Geye is an emerging talent who received his MFA from the University of New Orleans and his PhD from Western Michigan University, where he was editor of Third Coast. He was born and raised in Minneapolis and continues to live there with his wife and three children. He is the author of the award winning novel, Safe from the Sea.

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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 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 where they live at the mercy of wildlife and weather—and by the rough edges of their own breaking hearts.

“No author today writes from a sense of place as brilliantly as Peter Geye. The Lighthouse Road takes place in a broodingly atmospheric Northern Minnesota, peopled by tragic characters so influenced by their unforgiving environment, they can’t recognize love when they see it. This is a story that lingers long after you turn the last page.”- Melanie Benjamin, author of Alice I Have Been

Event date: 
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Event address: 
307 E Lake St.
49770 Petoskey
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The Lighthouse Road By Peter Geye Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9781609530846
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Unbridled Books - October 2nd, 2012

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.


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Safe from the Sea By Peter Geye Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781609530570
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Unbridled Books - September 12th, 2011

Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father thirty-five years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially survived and that has divided them emotionally ever since.