My Heart

By: Semezdin Mehmedinović

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

When a writer suffers a heart attack at the age of 50, he must confront his mortality in a country that is not his native home. Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness, he reflects on the fragility of life and finds extraordinary meaning in the quotidian. In this affecting autobiographical novel, Semezdin Mehmedinovic explores the love he and his family have for one another, strengthened by trauma; their harrowing experience of the Bosnian war, which led them to flee for the United States as refugees; eerie premonitions of Donald Trump's presidency; the life and work of a writer; and the nature of memory and grief.

Poetically explosive and pure to the core, My Heart serves as a kind of mirror, reflecting our human strengths and weaknesses along with the most important issues on our minds: love and death, the present and the past, sickness and health, leaving and staying.

©2021 Semezdin Mehmedinović (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Beautiful and sad

Very different, original, directly from the heart. I’ll read again in a while. I miss the old man.