An Evening with Sam Sussman

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Tue Jan 06 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

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Books & Books | Coral Gables, FL

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Sam Sussman joins us for his "gorgeous autobiographical debut" BOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY: A NOVEL
About this Event

The Books & Books Literary Foundation is proud to present an evening with Sam Sussman discussing Boy from the North Country: A Novel (Penguin Press, $29).

“This portrait of a young man caring for his mother is a rare combination of boldface intrigue and profound emotion.” Oprah Daily, The Best Fall Books of 2025
Boy From the North Country is as much fable as it is autobiography. . . . A tale of the uncanny, of the public figure hidden inside a private life, of fame woven into a family romance.” Tablet, Required Reading


***Please note: This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event. Can't make the event or want your copy early?



About the Book:

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


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.


In this deeply moving debut novel, Sam Sussman writes one of the most tender and intimate mother-son relationships of our era. Caring for his mother as her illness worsens, and as she begins to tell him truths he has waited so long to hear, Evan comes to understand the startling gift this extraordinary woman has bequeathed him.


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.



About the Author:

Sam Sussman grew up in the Hudson Valley. He graduated with a BA from Swarthmore College and an MPhil from the University of Oxford and has lived in Berlin and Jerusalem. His writing has been recognized by BAFTA and published in Harper’s Magazine. Sam has taught writing seminars in India, Chile, and England and participated in the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. He lives in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan and his native Hudson Valley.


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