Brilliant and infuriating, this dizzying memoir combines flamboyant verbal fireworks with an all too sober account of grief and growing up
When he was 21, Dave Eggers’ mother and father died, 32 days apart, leaving him and his eight-year-old brother Toph, to navigate life as orphans. His part-autobiographical, part fictional account of this experience in his 2000 debut A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius is not your traditional literary journey.
The brothers move from suburban Illinois to California, where an ill-equipped and immature Eggers is left with the task of raising Toph and simultaneously dealing with single parenthood and young adulthood.
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