Book cover for My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You

My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You

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31 October 2019
368 pages
9781529038484
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Aleksandar Hemon is, quite frankly, the greatest writer of our generation.
Hemon at his most contemplative, whimsical, and personal . . . a joy
Gorgeous . . . The writing contains both immediacy and a thrillingly historical long view . . . There is all the love and frustration here that anyone feels for their aging parents . . . [and] some of the best writing about what it really feels like to be a child that I can recall reading.
Not only is Hemon's book a masterpiece in literary terms, it is also a repudiation of the idea of the immigrant as a singular and infantilized creature, a human of lesser depth and complexity than everyone else.