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Sam Sussman is the author of Boy From the North Country, an instant USA Today bestseller, Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, and Oprah’s #1 debut novel of Fall 2025. Boy From the North Country has been reviewed as “the most beautiful and moving mother-son story in recent memory” (Kirkus), “the most powerful novel I read this year” (ABC Radio Australia), “this year’s finest Mother’s Day tribute” (Dagens Nyheter, Sweden), and “everything a novel needs” (El Pais, Spain). Sam has been profiled in the New York Times, written for Harper’s, Vogue, and the Washington Post, and received a Yaddo residency . Originally from the Hudson Valley, Sussman has lived in London and Berlin, taught fiction in India and Chile, and holds a B.A. from Swarthmore and M.Phil from Oxford.
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