No Permanent Scars reads how creative nonfiction should read: Like fiction. Like nonfiction. Like memoir. Like humor. Like literature. Like life. It’s about childhood, adulthood, the neighborhood and what it means to be a kid, a parent, a teacher, a human. Michael Hemery illuminates an honest working-class existence, offering both the sober realities of class discrimination and the humor and love of family. Intertwined with serious issues such as suicide, alcoholism, abuse, religion, and immigration, Hemery also endures a painfully slow and often naive coming of age (he once mistook an obvious prostitute for an office supply store employee). This is going to be the best book you’ll read this year.

No Permanent Scars

Literature & Fiction

Hemery, Michael

United States

Silenced Press

So We Go: The Day My Father Died

Our stories all end the same way; the difference is how we get there. Many accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money for ALS, but the real challenge of Lou Gehrig’s Disease begins the moment you or someone you love is diagnosed with this terminal illness. Michael Hemery’s memoir follows his father’s last day alive, interwoven with stories of his childhood and his father’s two-year decline. So We Go not only delves into the world of ALS, euthanasia and the medical community’s abandonment, but also offers a narrative of hope—and even laughter—as the Hemerys rally around their beloved husband, father, and grandfather. So We Go: The Day My Father Died is a story of relentless optimism in the face of certain death.

Parenting & Relationships

Michael Hemery

About the Author\nMichael Hemery is the author of two books: No Permanent Scars, a nonfiction short-story collection published by Silenced Press, and So We Go: The Day My Father Died, a memoir about his father's final day after suffering from ALS. He has also been published in Drunken Boat, Los Angeles Review, Lumina, New Plains Review, Passages North, The Portland Review, Post RoadMagazine, Redivider, Slice, sub-TERRAIN, The Tusculum Review, and the book Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir.\nHemery, who earned his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, is a tenured high school English teacher with years of experience with bothhigh school and college students. He also served as the nonfictioneditor for Hunger Mountain. He resides in the Cleveland area with his family.\nOur stories all end the same way; the difference is how we get there. 
Many accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money for ALS, but the real challenge of Lou Gehrig's Disease begins the moment you or someone you love is diagnosed with this terminal illness. 
Michael Hemery's memoir follows his father's last day alive, interwoven with stories of his childhood and his father's two-year decline. So We Go not only delves into the world of ALS, euthanasia and the medical community's abandonment, but also offers a narrative of hope--and even laughter--as the Hemerys rally around their beloved husband, father, and grandfather. 
So We Go: The Day My Father Died is a story of relentless optimism in the face of certain death.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Hemery, Michael. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Hemery, Michael