Media for Boy From the North Country

Kirkus, starred review: “Come for the riveting father-son mystery, stay for the most beautiful and moving mother-son story in recent memory…

Library Journal: “Sussman’s searingly tender debut novel… will be required reading for Dylanologists eager to see yet another side of their idol, but the heart of the story is the ferocious bond between a mother and son.”

Publisher’s Weekly, Writers to Watch: “Literature was a love language between my mother and me,” Sussman says, recounting how he grew up without TV in Goshen, N.Y., and read Harry Potter novels with his mother.

Debutiful, Most Anticipated Debut Novels of 2025: “It will be easy to pitch this book as a ‘Bob Dylan novel’ – and it is that, but it’s so much more. It’s an intimate and stirring novel about a boy’s relationship with his parents, filled with heart.”

Grove Press UK to publish Bob Dylan inspired autofictional novel: “I picked up Boy from the North Country as a Bob Dylan obsessive, but I put it down a Sam Sussman superfan – I’ve never encountered such a tender, inspiring relationship between mother and son.”

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