How to Tie Your Shoes is a confessional narrative that deals with the
relationship between a father and son--more precisely it narrates its
absence into existence. The novel begins when the narrator learns that
his father is terminally ill and decides to return home to arrange his
therapy. Mixing the most private fragments of their familial saga with
the turbulent recent history of post-Yugoslav transition, the book
connects seemingly divided fields of private and public suggesting a
strong link between the two facets of trauma: individual and collective.