With his tight curls and sharp features, Sam Sussman looks a lot like Bob Dylan — a resemblance that gained significance when Sussman was 15.

Driving with his stepfather, Luke, Dylan’s “ Like a Rolling Stone ” came on the radio, and Luke told him: “There’s a lyric in there about your mother. They used to know each other in her early New York days.”

“ Boy from the North Country ” (Penguin Press) is Sussman’s auto-fiction novel about his relationship with his mother, and the question of whether he is actually Dylan’s son. 7

As Sussman eventually found out, his mother, Fran — called June in the novel — spent a year in the mid-1970s in a situationship with the music legend.

The pair were not exactly dating and definitely not exclusive, but became emotionally and artistically intim

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