"The cafeteria in the Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world— and forever it shall be— with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped away from suffering children to have a grilled cheese sandwich."

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About Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American writer known for fiction and essays written in English after emigrating to the United States. His books include The Lazarus Project and The Making of Zombie Wars. His work often explores displacement, memory, and identity.

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