Another Friday is upon us and we have another entry in our MCD Authors on Authors series to celebrate our fifth anniversary. Last week, you read about Nathaniel Rich’s LOSING EARTH, this week, Rich shares his thoughts on (one of) our resident geniuses, @aleksandarhemon. Hemon’s memoir MY PARENTS and its accompanying flip-side memoir, THIS DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU are two sides of the same physical book, a work that asks you to look at every story from a new and different perspective...literally. “MY PARENTS is an elegy made more powerful by the fact that it was published while its octogenarian subjects were still alive. That takes some hrabost (that’s Bosnian for guts). Reading the memoir you sense Tata and Mama peering over your shoulder, interjecting with cavils, murmurs of disapproval, and tears of profound emotion, perhaps accompanied by impassioned song, something to the tune of ‘Ivanku T Y Ivanku,’ say, or ‘Rospriathaite Hloptsy Konyi.’ In the kind of eccentric publishing feat at which MCD excels, MY PARENTS is paired in the same book with a second, complementary memoir, This Does Not Belong to You, the two volumes front-to-back and upside-down from each other. No matter whether you begin reading from the left side or the right you always end up in the middle, which is a decent metaphor for the art of memoir. A great memoir doesn’t terminate so much as plunge the reader deeper into the lives of its subjects. Whether you begin a life at birth or death you end up in the heart of it all.” Read the rest at the 🔗in bio! #MyParents #ThisDoesNotBelongToYou #AuthorsOnAuthors