437 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2001 by Vintage Books.
437 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2001 by Vintage Books.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.