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Friday, 22 November 2019

The Book of My Lives - Aleksander Hemon

A collection of what read like short stories, but are actually short autobiographical pieces.  Somehow he sees how his life resembles fiction.  Some wonderful pieces on his early times as a newly arrived accidental immigrant in the U.S., stranded by the start of the war in Bosnia, that examine what it feels like to be a new immigrant, living with the "us" and "them".  A very sharp observer of people, their peculiarities and foibles.  You also get some sense of Slavic culture through the pieces about his family and his relationship with his father.

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