* BOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY

    This is a novel.
    When Evan, twenty-six, is suddenly called home from his life abroad to the secluded farmhouse where he was raised by his mother, June, there is so much he does not yet know. He doesn’t know his mother is dying. He still doesn’t know the identity of his biological father or the elusive story of his mother’s creatively intense, emotionally turbulent romance with Bob Dylan, whom Evan reveres as an artist and whom strangers have long insisted he resembles. He doesn’t know the secrets of his mother’s life before he was born or what drove her to leave New York City for a completely different existence.
    Inspired by the author’s own uncertain celebrity paternity, BOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY is an emotionally searing meditation on the most essential human themes: loss, healing, memory, and the redemptive power of love.

   By Sam Sussman, Penguin Press 2025, hardcover, 336 pages. ISBN 9780593835050