Boy From the North Coun­try is one of the most ten­der moth­er-son nov­els of our era. The book is based on the author’s life sto­ry as told in his Harper’s Mag­a­zine mem­oir essay, The Silent Type: On (Pos­si­bly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son. Evan, 26, returns home to his ill moth­er to dis­cov­er the aston­ish­ing truth of his ori­gins and the secrets of a woman whose life he is only begin­ning to under­stand. Car­ing for his moth­er as she tells him painful truths, Evan comes to under­stand the star­tling gift this extra­or­di­nary woman has bequeathed him. The nov­el is also a rare view into the life of Bob Dylan, includ­ing the most inti­mate por­trait ever pub­lished of Dylan in the year he turned to Jew­ish spir­i­tu­al wis­dom as he strug­gled through per­son­al cri­sis to write Blood on the Tracks. 

A trib­ute to 1970s New York Jew­ish bohemia and a love let­ter from a son to a moth­er, this stun­ning debut is for read­ers of Jonathan Safran Foer, Dara Horn, Vivian Gor­nick, and Ben Lerner.