A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, Dave Eggers, A Memoir Based on a True Story
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A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, Dave Eggers, A Memoir Based on a True Story
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A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
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Dave Eggers
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The literary sensation of the year, 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. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come
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