Come meet the author! We are delighted to host a discussion with Sam Sussman, author of the national best seller, Boy from the North Country. Did you know he grew up right here in Goshen? Sam has been busy on a successful tour across the U.S. and Europe but when we asked him if he’d like to do a signing and launch event in his old hometown, he agreed! This is such a great opportunity for the community!

Goshen’s own Sam Sussman will be at Goshen Green Farm Sat Nov 15th, 1-3 PM for a meet and greet, discussion of his new novel, and book signing. The event is free to the public. Please RSVP so we can plan accordingly. Take advantage of the option to purchase a signed copy of the book to take home with you!

Named Oprah’s most anticipated debut novel of the fall. “This portrait of a young man caring for his mother is a rare combination of boldface intrigue and profound emotion.” —Oprah Daily, The Best Fall Books of 2025 - scroll down for more

ABOUT BOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
In this deeply moving debut novel, Sam Sussman writes one of the most tender and intimate mother-son relationships of our era. 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.

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. 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.

PRAISE FOR BOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY

“Sam Sussman is a courageous, honest, compassionate, generous writer, and Boy from the North Country is a remarkable novel. It's a penetratingly observed exploration of loss and grief, healing and mortality, theology, philosophy, and above all, art—of art as origin and salvation, art as community, seduction, fame, power, holiness. Its language is unguardedly personal, at times uncomfortably intimate, accumulating over and over into moments of stunning poetic force, revelatory insight, heartbreak and wisdom.” —Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America

"A loving ode to an extraordinary mother; a soulful coming of age; an unlikely portrait of Dylan in his prime as fresh as they come. Sam Sussman's Boy from the North Country heralds the arrival of a blazing new literary talent." — Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Homeland Elegies and Disgraced