Bedford Public Library

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, by Dave Eggers

A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. 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. Here is an 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

9780684863474

99053475

xxxix, 375 pages, illustrations, 25 cm

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