Author Event! Sam Sussman & Chloe Conaway

Schedule

Thu Oct 09 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

1113 Montana Ave | Santa Monica, CA

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In person author event with Sam Sussman & Chloe Conaway at Zibby's Bookshop, 1113 Montana Ave, Santa Monica 90403!
About this Event

Zibby's Bookshop & Pen America are excited to host Sam Sussman & Chloe Conaway in Celebration of Boy From the North Country.

About the book:

“Come for the riveting father-son mystery, stay for the most beautiful and moving mother-son story in recent memory.” —Kirkus (starred review)“Sussman’s searingly tender debut novel… will be required reading for Dylanologists eager to see yet another side of their idol, but the heart of the story is the ferocious bond between a mother and son.” —Library JournalA 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 understandWhen 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 PEN America:

PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible. Learn more at pen.org.

About the authors:

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.

Chloe Conaway is a corporate lawyer, avid reader and sometimes-editor. Her theater criticism has been published by Theatrely. Chloe lives in Santa Monica and can regularly be found popping into Zibby's Bookshop with smoothie in hand.


Agenda

🕑: 06:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Discussion
🕑: 06:30 PM - 06:45 PM
Q&A
🕑: 06:45 PM - 07:00 PM
Signing
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Where is it happening?

1113 Montana Ave, 1113 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, United States

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