The Broken Key

What does it mean to start over at age twenty-seven, to move beyond failure and disappointment and begin life again? In returning to his hometown, a historic city perched on the snow-covered shores of Lake Superior, Tom Johnson never suspects that he is being led to a young woman on the cusp of an irrevocable change. Funny and smart, evocative and heart-breaking…


Paul Kilgore is the author of the short story collection Losing Camille, which was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.  His work has appeared on Prairie Home Companion and he is a past winner of Minnesota Monthly’s Tamarack Award for Short Fiction.  He has been a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.  The Broken Key is his first novel.