Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness after a heart attack, Semezdin Mehmedinovic reflects on the fragility of life and finds extraordinary meaning in the quotidian. This affecting autobiographical novel 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 of a writer; and the nature of memory and grief. Poetically explosive and pure, 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.