Peter Geye offers a multi-layered telling of early 1900s life on the North Shore in his novel, “A Lesser Light.” I was staying up at Lake Superior in early April, in what turned out to be a blizzard.

DULUTH — Peter Geye is not the first author to set a story at a lighthouse. "There's something magical about them, something mysterious," said Geye when we connected recently. "Split Rock, maybe, ...

Prepare to crank those amps up to eleven.

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