A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
/ by Dave Eggers
- First Vintage Books edition
- xlv, 437, 48 pages
Addendum bound upside down. Contains additional work, with added title page: Mistakes we knew were making.
A 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.