Sussman

 

It’s the question that has shadowed his entire life.

 

Now, the author of the USA Today bestselling novel Boy From the North Country, Sam Sussman, comes to Longboat Key to delve into the extraordinary story behind his mother’s past, the relationship she never spoke about, and the silence that shaped his childhood.

 

Named by Oprah as the Best Debut Novel of the Fall and hailed by Kirkus as “the most beautiful and moving mother–son story in recent memory,” Boy From the North Country also sparked a New York Times profile on Sam and the mystery at the center of his life.

 

The novel expands on Sam’s Harper’s Magazine memoir, “The Silent Type: On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s Son,” which ignited fascination and debate surrounding his family’s story and the inheritance of legend.

 

Sam holds degrees from Swarthmore College and the University of Oxford. He has lived in Berlin and Jerusalem and now divides his time between Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood and the Hudson Valley.