Author Talk: Boy from the North Country with Sam Sussman

Mon., Nov. 3 | 7 pm | In-person at the JCC | $10

Boy from the North Country with Sam Sussman

"Boy From the North Country" is one of the most tender mother-son novels of our era. The book is based on the author’s life story as told in his Harper’s Magazine memoir essay, "The Silent Type: On (Possibly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son." Evan, 26, returns home to his ill mother to discover the astonishing truth of his origins and the secrets of a woman whose life he is only beginning to understand. Caring for his mother as she tells him painful truths, Evan comes to understand the startling gift this extraordinary woman has bequeathed him. The novel is also a rare view into the life of Bob Dylan, including the most intimate portrait ever published of Dylan in the year he turned to Jewish spiritual wisdom as he struggled through personal crisis to write "Blood on the Tracks." This novel is a tribute to 1970s New York Jewish bohemia and a love letter from a son to a mother. This stunning debut is for readers of Jonathan Safran Foer, Dara Horn, Vivian Gornick, and Ben Lerner.

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.

Sam Sussman will be interviewed by Max Newman.

This is a Jewish Book Council Program.

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