When Evan twenty-six is suddenly called home 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 what drove his
mother to leave New York City for a completely different existence. In this deeply moving
debut novel inspired by the author's own uncertain celebrity paternity 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.
