Inspired by Sussman's own experience with uncertain celebrity paternity, Boy from the North Country is a deeply intimate story about loss, healing, identity and the redemptive power of love.

A son comes home to his dying mother and discovers the astonishing truth about where he came from. In his debut novel, Boy from the North Country, Sam Sussman explores family, identity, memory and the complicated legacy of a mother whose life holds secrets her son has spent years trying to understand. Twenty-six-year-old Evan returns to the secluded farmhouse where he was raised by his mother, June, only to discover that she is dying. As she begins revealing long-held truths including the story of her emotionally turbulent relationship with Bob Dylan and the mystery surrounding Evan's biological father…mother and son confront the questions that have shaped both of their lives.

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