A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

437 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2001 by Vintage Books.

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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.

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Subjects

  • Eggers, Dave
  • Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects
  • Brothers -- Biography