Boy from the North Country

''Heartbreaking and brilliant'' LILY KING''A remarkable novel'' TONY KUSHNER''A monumental event for anyone who cares about Dylan'' DAVID YAFFE''A debut novel of rare power'' MARIA SEMPLE''A pleasure to read'' VIVIAN GORNICK''A dazzling book'' AMINATTA FORNAWhen Evan, twenty-six, is suddenly called home 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 the extent of his mother''s illness. He 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 what drove his mother to leave New York City for a completely different existence.In this deeply moving debut novel, inspired by the author''s own uncertain celebrity paternity, Sam Sussman writes one of the most tender and intimate mother-son relationships of our era.