A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents. The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year". Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive" by The New York Times. The book was chosen as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times

subjects: Death,  Brothers,  Family,  Bildungsromans,  American Authors,  Parents,  Psychological aspects,  Bildungsromane,  Domestic fiction,  Biography,  Large type books,  Death, psychological aspects,  Authors, biography,  Young men,  Families,  Terminally ill parents,  Medicine in Literature,  Eggers, dave,  Parents--death--psychological aspects,  Brothers--biography,  Coming of age,  Parents--psychological aspects,  Css faculty reading list: bret johnson,  Ct275.e37 a3 2001,  973.92/092,  B,  18.06,  Hu 9800,  Biography and autobiography,  Bereavement,  Siblings,  Child rearing,  Cooking,  Quick and easy cooking

People: Dave Eggers

Places: California,  San Francisco,  Berekeley,  Florida

Times: 20th century