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Sep 19, 2025
Sam Sussman joins us for the launch of his highly anticipated debut novel — an emotionally searing story about loss, memory, love, and Bob Dylan — Boy from the North Country.
A son returns home to his dying mother to discover the astonishing truth of his origins and the secrets of a woman whose life and wisdom he is only beginning to understand. This is the premise of Boy from the North Country, but Sam Sussman’s daring and tender debut is so much more — inspired by Sussman’s own mysterious celebrity paternity, it is a story of healing, mortality, art, and the myth of Bob Dylan — a story like none other.
In a candid reading and conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar, hear Sussman discuss his singular debut, one of the most intimate mother-son relationships of our literary era — his own complex and intertwined relationship with Bob Dylan and his music, untangling myth and reality to create art, writing a new kind of story about grief, and much more.
“Haunting… beautiful.” —Vivian Gornick
“Heralds the arrival of a blazing new literary talent.” — Ayad Akhtar
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