Thomas Maltman reads from "Little Wolves," and Peter Geye reads from "The Lighthouse Road"

Two of Minnesota’s best authors explore the North Star State’s dark side.



In Thomas Maltman’s new novel, Little Wolves, a tragic act of violence echoes through a small Minnesota town.



Set on the Minnesota prairie in the late 1980s during a drought season that’s pushing family farms to the brink, Little Wolves
features the intertwining stories of a father searching for answers
after his son commits a heinous murder, and a pastor’s wife (and
washed-out scholar of early Anglo-Saxon literature) who has returned to
the town for mysterious reasons of her own. A penetrating look at
small-town America from the award-winning author of The Night Birds, Little Wolves
weaves together elements of folklore and Norse mythology while being
driven by a powerful murder mystery; a page-turning literary triumph.

"A
complicated portrait of a prairie town, a meditation on violence, a
fantasia of myth and folklore, and a knockout murder mystery, Little
Wolves is haunting, at times terrifying, a gothic cousin to Kent Haruf's
Plainsong. I loved this book."--Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon, The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh

"The
poetry of this prose and the suspense of the plot, along with the
intensity of characterization will have many readers comparing Thomas
Maltman to Cormac McCarthy--that greatest of compliments--for very good
reason. This novel is a work of high art by the real thing."--Laura
Kasischke, author of Space, in Chains and The Life Before Her Eyes

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The Lighthouse Road is
a stunning saga of Minnesota logging camps, desperate winters, whiskey
smuggling, heartache, boat building and dangerous love.



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, The Lighthouse Road,
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.

“The Lighthouse Road is
a cinematic thundercloud gusting across the northern landscape Peter
Geye so clearly loves. With its conflicted heroes and their seafaring,
bootlegging, lumber-camp agonies, this book understands hard work and
heartbreak -- it takes no shortcuts but delivers its cargo in generous
style, a tale wrapped in blizzards and viewed through the glass eye of
history.”--Leif Enger, author of Peace Like A River

Peter
Geye was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he continues
to live with his wife and three kids.  He received his BA from the
University of Minnesota, his MFA from the University of New Orleans, and
his PhD from Western Michigan University, where he taught creative
writing and was editor of Third Coast. He has also been a bartender, bookseller, banker, copywriter, and cook. He is the author of the award-winning novel, Safe from the Sea. Learn more at www.petergeye.com.