About this Event
Huxley & Hiro is thrilled to host author Sam Sussman for a conversation about his debut novel, Boy from the North Country. Moderated by Rachel Eliza Griffiths, it promises to be an evening of insight and inspiration!
Book Description:
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 is the author of the USA Today bestselling novel . The book was named Oprah’s most anticipated debut novel of the fall, hailed by Kirkus as “the most beautiful and moving mother-son story in recent memory,” and Sam was recently profiled in the New York Times. Boy From the North Country is based on Sam's Harper's Magazine memoir "The Silent Type: On (possibly) being Bob Dylan's Son." He graduated with a BA from Swarthmore College and an MPhil from the University of Oxford and has lived in Berlin and Jerusalem. Sam lives in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan and his native Hudson Valley.
About the Moderator:
Delaware native Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. She is a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a NAACP Image Award. Griffiths is also a recipient of fellowships from many organizations, including Cave Canem Foundation, Kimbilio, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tin House, and other publications. Her debut novel, Promise, was a Kirkus Reviews and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year.
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
All Ages
Free Entrance, Registration Required
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Huxley & Hiro Booksellers, 601 North Market Street, Wilmington, United States
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