{"product_id":"book-kele","title":"Boy from the North Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fiction finalist for the 75th National Jewish Book Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This portrait of a young man caring for his mother is a rare combination of boldface intrigue and profound emotion.” —\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, The Best Fall Books of 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Come for the riveting father-son mystery, stay for the most beautiful and moving mother-son story in recent memory.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA son returns home to his dying mother to discover the astonishing truth of his origins and the secrets of a woman whose life and wisdom he is only beginning to understand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this deeply moving debut novel, Sam Sussman writes one of the most tender and intimate mother-son relationships of our era. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the author’s own uncertain celebrity paternity, \u003ci\u003eBoy from the North Country \u003c\/i\u003eis an emotionally searing meditation on the most essential human themes: loss, healing, memory, and the redemptive power of love.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50115690168624,"sku":"BDkele","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/kele-Square-cover.jpg?v=1770760479","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-kele","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}