Boy From the North Country

Boy from the North Country is the debut novel by Sam Sussman, published by Penguin Press in the United States on September 16, 2025, and by Grove Press in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2025. The autobiographical novel is based on Sussman’s Harper’s Magazine memoir, “The Silent Type: On (Possibly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son.”

Sussman recorded and reads the audiobook for Boy From the North Country.

Reception

Kirkus called the novel “The most beautiful and moving mother-son story in recent memory.”

Library Journal called the book “required reading for Dylanologists eager to see yet another side of their idol.”

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