Program Type:
Author Talk- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration will open on January 20, 2026 @ 6:30pm.
Program Description
Event Details
Not to be missed Author Sussman appears in-conversation with Librarian Ali Blau! There will be a book sale and signing following Sussman's appearance. Please register!
About the book:
Based on Sussman’s Harper’s memoir essay, “The Silent Type: On (Possibly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son,” BOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY is one of the most tender and intimate mother-son stories of our era. The novel has been hailed as “a monumental event for anyone who cares about Dylan”.
When twenty-six-year-old Evan returns home from his life abroad to the Hudson Valley farmhouse where he was raised by his mother, there is so much he doesn’t know. He doesn’t know that his vibrant, loving mother June 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 quiet rural life where he was brought up to believe in the cathartic power of stories and, above all, love.
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. While the powerful bond between mother and son lies at the heart of this story, Sussman also renders a riveting and intimate depiction of Bob Dylan struggling through artistic and personal crisis to write his most famous album, Blood on the Tracks, drawn from the account of Sussman’s mother, Dylan’s lover at that time, and
artfully woven into the book’s essential human themes of loss, memory, and the redemptive power of love.