In My Darling Boy: A Novel, John Dufresne tells the story of Olney, whose beloved son Cully collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of South Florida. Aided by his terminally ill girlfriend and the colorful inhabitants of a local motel, Olney sets out to save his son from becoming another fatality of the opioid crisis. Sam Sussman’s Boy from the North Country: A Novel centers on the relationship between Evan and his dying mother, June. He’s been called to her side from his life abroad, unaware of many things: her condition, the identity of his biological father, her romance with Bob Dylan, or why she left New York City for a farmhouse. Her answers are a startling gift from an extraordinary woman. Moderated by Jamie Betesh Carter, Jewish Book Council.
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SAM SUSSMAN grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley. He graduated with a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford; has lived in Berlin and Jerusalem; taught writing seminars in India, Chile, and England; and participated in the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. His writing has been recognized by BAFTA and published in Harper’s Magazine, and he is the author of Boy from the North Country: A Novel (Penguin Press).
