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Semezdin Memedinovic charts the collapse of a world with heartbreaking clarity and precision . . . conveys the same clear-eyed passion for the truth that one finds in the young Hemingway, the Hemingway of our time. --Paul Auster Readers will discover that Mehmedinovoic's powerfully affecting and honest tale of the dizzy perimeter of mortality is also the oldest and best kind of story: one of love. --Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and American Innovations One of the most endearingly ruminative, sweetly sorrowful short novels I have ever encountered. A quietly devastating portrait of grief and loss, the soul-ache of exile, and the sustaining power of familial love, My Heart broke mine. --Dan Sheehan, author of Restless Souls My Heart is a family memoir, a personal account, a travelogue, a history, an immigrant story, and more, much more. A brilliant, unforgettable book, concise yet expansive, both microscopic and universal in its scope. It's a record of the everyday, of the quotidian as informed by our PTSD. An astonishing achievement. --Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman

Semezdin Memedinovic charts the collapse of a world with heartbreaking clarity and precision . . . conveys the same clear-eyed passion for the truth that one finds in the young Hemingway, the Hemingway of our time. --Paul Auster Readers will discover that Mehmedinovoic's powerfully affecting and honest tale of the dizzy perimeter of mortality is also the oldest and best kind of story: one of love. --Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and American Innovations One of the most endearingly ruminative, sweetly sorrowful short novels I have ever encountered. A quietly devastating portrait of grief and loss, the soul-ache of exile, and the sustaining power of familial love, My Heart broke mine. --Dan Sheehan, author of Restless Souls My Heart is a family memoir, a personal account, a travelogue, a history, an immigrant story, and more, much more. A brilliant, unforgettable book, concise yet expansive, both microscopic and universal in its scope. It's a record of the everyday, of the quotidian as informed by our PTSD. An astonishing achievement. --Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman The young women and girls in Prepare Her, Genevieve Plunkett's story collection, seem often to be peering at their lives as if through the wrong end of a telescope, deeply focused yet oddly distant from it. These are stories about intimacy and loneliness, and about desire, the desire these young women have to inhabit their bodies fully as sexual beings, to be seen one moment and not seen the next. Few writers capture sex as beautifully and self-consciously, as strangely and humorously, as Plunkett. Simply put, I loved these stories. --Lori Ostlund, author of After The Parade and The Bigness of the World Genevieve Plunkett's stories are elegant, original, and moving, with the lyrical brilliance and bite of Sylvia Plath. Her characters are painfully, magnetically human, and her prose is imaginative--an impressive tangle with the ideas of domesticity and womanhood, and a thrilling debut. --Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Almost Famous Women and Birds of a Lesser Paradise Prepare Her, Genevieve Plunkett's debut story collection, is a book about finding the strength to embrace loneliness in order to search for one's squelched and buried self. Plunkett's characters do not always find the answers, but she portrays their struggle to break free from the oppressiveness of marriage and family and grief with such humor and tenderness, with such poetry, that we can believe again in the possibility of triumph over despair, of life over emptiness. This book beats with the heart of our times. --Anne Raeff, author of Winter Kept Us Warm, The Jungle Around Us, and Only the River

Semezdin Memedinovic charts the collapse of a world with heartbreaking clarity and precision . . . conveys the same clear-eyed passion for the truth that one finds in the young Hemingway, the Hemingway of our time. --Paul Auster A tender, profound autobiographical novel that contemplates mortality, family, intimacy, and identity, My Heart feels particularly resonant right now, as so many of us are grappling with the frail of life, and how a sudden illness can cut it all too short at a moment's notice. Mehmedinovic comes from the former Yugoslavia; he and his family became refugees to the United States during the Bosnian war, and so this novel also explores other seemingly foundational but actually quite fragile constructs: the meanings of home, of safety, and of belonging. --Kristin Iversen, Refinery29, One of the Best New Books of the Year A powerful autofictional gut punch of a novel . . . Few books are this good at capturing an immigrant's sense of loss. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) An intimate, yet profound and lyrical portrait of a man and his family . . . Superbly translated by Celia Hawkesworth, My Heart is an introspective, literary journey worth taking. --Booklist (starred review) An interrogation of a Bosnian past from a place of trauma and displacement, which parallels the turnstiles of love and family, themes and topics around which the book's heart is centered . . . There's no other writer who conveys with such grace what can happen to the heart--physical, emotional, and in its memory. This will be one of the best books of 2021. --Literary Hub, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year Mehmedinovic's poetic side reveals itself via achingly beautiful imagery and recurring motifs. And he is a remarkably prescient observer of America . . . A deeply personal and incisive look at memory, anchored by astute observations. --Kirkus Reviews Readers will discover that Mehmedinovoic's powerfully affecting and honest tale of the dizzy perimeter of mortality is also the oldest and best kind of story: one of love. --Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and American Innovations One of the most endearingly ruminative, sweetly sorrowful short novels I have ever encountered. A quietly devastating portrait of grief and loss, the soul-ache of exile, and the sustaining power of familial love, My Heart broke mine. --Dan Sheehan, author of Restless Souls My Heart is a family memoir, a personal account, a travelogue, a history, an immigrant story, and more, much more. A brilliant, unforgettable book, concise yet expansive, both microscopic and universal in its scope. It's a record of the everyday, of the quotidian as informed by our PTSD. An astonishing achievement. --Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman Intelligent, honest, and full of heart, Mehmedinovic's novel has all the qualities one might seek in a friend. Like a friend, it is honest enough to tell you even the harshest of truths, and, like a true friend, it ensures that you will never feel alone while you read it, even in its most heartbreaking moments. --Etgar Keret, author of The Seven Good Years

Semezdin Memedinovic charts the collapse of a world with heartbreaking clarity and precision . . . conveys the same clear-eyed passion for the truth that one finds in the young Hemingway, the Hemingway of our time. --Paul Auster Readers will discover that Mehmedinovoic's powerfully affecting and honest tale of the dizzy perimeter of mortality is also the oldest and best kind of story: one of love. --Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and American Innovations One of the most endearingly ruminative, sweetly sorrowful short novels I have ever encountered. A quietly devastating portrait of grief and loss, the soul-ache of exile, and the sustaining power of familial love, My Heart broke mine. --Dan Sheehan, author of Restless Souls

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Semezdin Mehmedinović was born in 1960 in Kiseljak near Tuzla. He studied comparative literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. A poet and an essayist, Mehmedinović has held the position of an editor in newspapers, weeklies, as well as on the radio and television. He has edited a number of culture magazines and has been involved in the film industry. Sarajevo Blues and Nine Alexandrias have been published among his other works. Since 1996, he has been living in the United States.

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